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At the pilot school for SoaS in Boston all the teachers have ~~apple~~ laptops. We expect the most convenient way for the teachers to run Sugar will be as an emulation of their existing laptop.

At the pilot school for SoaS in Boston all the teachers have Apple laptops. We expect the most convenient way for the teachers to run Sugar will be as an emulation of their existing laptop.

These are instructions for using a copy of Sugar on a Stick configured to run in ~~VirtualBox~~. ~~It is a VirtualBox disk image created from~~ SoaS-~~7 that allows saving changes and includes VirtualBox Guest Additions which allows 1024x768 resolution~~.

These are instructions for using a copy of Sugar on a Stick, configured to run in virtual environments. A new, special version of SoaS-2 has been announced here: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-March/012747.html

~~:(See [[Sugar_on_a_Stick_VirtualBox/Preparing_a_disk_image]] for instructions on how~~ the ~~VirtualBox~~ disk image ~~was prepared~~.) --~~[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 21:17, 14 February 2009 (UTC)~~

How do you grab it?

* First download the disk image from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/soas2-20090315.tar.gz

* Then unzip it and remember where you put it - you'll get a .xml and a .vmdk file.

* Follow the instructions below to get and configure VirtualBox.

~~First download~~ the ~~virtualbox disk image (19-December-2008) http://sugarlabs.org/static/soas-7-vbox.zip (md5sum 4f9f29cfc88d61e7686b872897840aae) then unzip~~ this ~~file~~ and ~~remember where you put it~~. ~~While you~~ are ~~waiting for SoaS to download you can set up Virtual Box~~.

Please be aware of the fact that this is still alpha quality and not at all ready for production use. You might want to create your own image, though. Probably obsolete instructions to do so are located [[Sugar_on_a_Stick_VirtualBox/Preparing_a_disk_image|here]].

==Install VirtualBox==

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## a new window pops up

## click Add button in the toolbar

## browse to the location where you ~~downloaded~~ the disk image

## browse to the location where you extracted the .vmdk disk image

## click Open

## click Select

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-At the pilot school for SoaS in Boston all the teachers have apple laptops. We expect the most convenient way for the teachers to run Sugar will be as an emulation of their existing laptop.
+At the pilot school for SoaS in Boston all the teachers have Apple laptops. We expect the most convenient way for the teachers to run Sugar will be as an emulation of their existing laptop.
-These are instructions for using a copy of Sugar on a Stick configured to run in VirtualBox. It is a VirtualBox disk image created from SoaS-7 that allows saving changes and includes VirtualBox Guest Additions which allows 1024x768 resolution.
+These are instructions for using a copy of Sugar on a Stick, configured to run in virtual environments. A new, special version of SoaS-2 has been announced here: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-March/012747.html
-:(See [[Sugar_on_a_Stick_VirtualBox/Preparing_a_disk_image]] for instructions on how the VirtualBox disk image was prepared.) --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 21:17, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
+How do you grab it?
+* First download the disk image from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/soas2-20090315.tar.gz
+* Then unzip it and remember where you put it - you'll get a .xml and a .vmdk file.
+* Follow the instructions below to get and configure VirtualBox.
-First download the virtualbox disk image (19-December-2008) http://sugarlabs.org/static/soas-7-vbox.zip (md5sum 4f9f29cfc88d61e7686b872897840aae) then unzip this file and remember where you put it.  While you are waiting for SoaS to download you can set up Virtual Box.
+Please be aware of the fact that this is still alpha quality and not at all ready for production use. You might want to create your own image, though. Probably obsolete instructions to do so are located [[Sugar_on_a_Stick_VirtualBox/Preparing_a_disk_image|here]].
 ==Install VirtualBox==
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 ## a new window pops up
 ## click Add button in the toolbar
-## browse to the location where you downloaded the disk image
+## browse to the location where you extracted the .vmdk disk image
 ## click Open
 ## click Select