Emulator image files

This is a quick guide to the locations of various forms of Sugar software that can run in QEMU emulation or VMware or VirtualBox virtualization.

You can download installation images (.iso files) for Linux distributions that support Sugar and create your own bootable images with Sugar installed.

See VirtualBox, VMware, or QEMU for more information on how to run an image, and Supported systems for more information on what is available.

Other virtual machines

wikipedia Comparison_of_platform_virtual_machines Very nice comparison of features of various Virtual Machines Platforms

VirtualBox

• Appliance of Sugar on a Stick v3-Mirabelle

firstboot has not yet run; so a new user name and password will be set for the gdm login on startup for the first time

How Built:

root=sugarroot

8-GB VirtualBox hard disc

English and English keyboard

USA-Los Angeles (Pacific timezone)

download and import 2 files:

http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/VirtualBox/Fedora-13-i686-Live-SoaS-sugaruser.vmdk 533M
http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/VirtualBox/Fedora-13-i686-Live-SoaS-sugaruser.ovf   12K

• Note1:Use the latest version of Oracle VM VirtualBox (3.2_10.8-64453 or later). Some appliances have multiple hard disc controllers and the earlier Sun VirtualBox 3.1 version does not support them.
• Note2: All appliances were built on a MacBook Air with Oracle VM VirtualBox (3.2.10-r66523) then tested on a Ubuntu installation on an Acer Aspire One Netbook imported into VirtualBox (3.2.10 r66523)
• Note3:Set ControlPanel/Frame "Edge" slider to far left for easier access to sugar-frame features

• Appliance of Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry
  Read this first.

download and import 3 files: soas-2-blueberry.ovf soas-2-blueberry.mf soas-2-blueberry.vmdk

• VirtualBox disc image of Sugar on a Stick v1 Strawberry
  See SoaS on VirtualBox for more context.

soas-strawberry-vdi.zip Sugar 0.84 (22 June 2009)

• Appliance of openSUSE-Sugar-11.3 [1] Uploaded 26 September 2010
  

download and import 3 files:openSUSE_sugar.ovf openSUSE_sugar.ovf openSUSE_sugar.mf openSUSE-Sugar-11.3.vmdk

8-GB VirtualBox hard disc

English and English keyboard

USA-Los Angeles (Pacific timezone)

Autologin- user=sugar password=sugaruser

Ready to auto-configure to your hardware on first booting.

note choose /dev/sda2 when prompted to do so on first run

• Appliance of UbuntuSugarRemix

Reference links: Community/Distributions/Ubuntu, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar

download and import 3 files: USR-922-IRC-Remix.ovf USR-922-IRC-Remix.mf USR-i386-20100922.vmdk

TZ=LA USA USA Keyboard 8-GB HD fully updated on 22 September 2010 with

apt-get Updates

apt-get Upgrade

Remixed to add

Surf-115.xo browser

IRC.xo -(edited to log in to #sugar and #ubuntu-sugarteam)

Analyze.xo

Import the 3 files into Oracle Virtualbox

User=sugar autologin

Password=sugaruser

• install the virtualbox guest additions

Integrates a Running Virtualbox Appliance with the desktop

install the virtualbox guest additions with sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-utils

VMware Player

NOTE: VMPlayer will open Virtualbox3.2 appliance xxxx.vmdk files listed above

• VMware Player appliance of one of the nightly composes of Sugar on a Stick (soas-i386-20100818.16.iso)

Read this first.

download

• VMware Player of Sugar on a Stick v2 (Blueberry)

Read this first.

download

• Open-suse-education

Read this first.

download

networking help

how to use

QEMU

instructions, downloads

Image installation tools

ZyX-LiveInstaller

ZyX-LiveInstaller allows you to install Sugar from either a booted Live USB device or Live CD media to a system or external disk. It creates a traditional operating system installation on disk (or removable media such as SD or USB storage devices).

This program can be useful for installing to a virtualized hard disk. It is not included in builds after soas-v2 Blueberry, so it must be downloaded and installed to use.

In a running SoaS Terminal session or console, execute the following commands:

su

yum install zyx-liveinstaller gparted

EasyVMX!

Make a VMware Player appliance with-out needing a copy of VMware Workstation

• web site that builds a vmx file to your specifications (free)

http://www.easyvmx.com/

Works fine, runs on most platforms, and has persistence

VMware Player download (free): http://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/

EXAMPLE: soas-i386-20100926.17.iso burned to a CD

specified a 8 GB Hard Drive and other parameters

downloaded, in browse, the Custom vmx file as a .zip file

Decompressed the .zip file

Put soas-i386-20100926.17 CD in your CD Drive

Open VMPlayer and point it to this vmx file

CD boots in VMplayer application

Sugar Starts

• To install to VMplayer Hard Disk:

Open Sugar-terminal:

su
liveinst
Anaconda installer opens
Initialize all disks
Install procedes normally
reboot
firstboot
Log in to user you specified

HINT: put the VMplayer Hard Disk Files on a 2 GB USB stick.

(note runs about 10x slower on a USB stick)

Example above created a 1.4 GB set of files'

Copy-Paste all files

Sugar on a Stick in VM Player form with persistence

Portable (Student can take home and run on home Computer)

Run it on different Platforms

See also

• Tom van Overbeek describes how to run Sugar using QEMU