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<satellit_f20> nice demo VirtualBox runs on almost all OS Mac Linux M$

*[Server-devel]11/18/2013 '''The three step XSCE demo!'''

Hi, Had some time on my hand this week to try out XSCE in a virtual environment. It actually worked out pretty well, and now there's a working appliance. Here's the three step XSCE demo!

Step #1 - Download and install Virtualbox

Head to https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads to download the Virtualbox package for your OS.

Install instructions may vary for different platforms but should be pretty straightforward.

Step #2 - Download and install the XSCE appliance

Download the XSCE Virtualbox appliance from here https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3eW2YPe6koIVXRVbDhSR0xXQ1U (approx 1.6 GB)

[optional] Verify the md5sum to see if the image is not corrupt - 56a4f141b564b0d2bd65c543a5e585c6

Open Virtualbox. Go to File -> Import Appliance.

A dialog will appear asking you to "Open Appliance"

Select the file you just downloaded "b_1364170741.ova"

Click "Next" and then click "Import"

A new virtual machine will get created

Step #3 - Play!

Start the virtual machine just created. It will open a window, and an OS will appear to boot.

Wait till it boots. Once it has booted, a login prompt will appear in a text console. Your XSCE is now up and ready!

To test/demo, on the host OS (i.e., the one where you are running the virtualbox software in) open a browser

XSCE homepage: http://localhost:3380/

From the homepage you should be able to navigate to Internet In A Box. This image contains a test dataset.

The link to the moodle homepage will NOT work. To access moodle, go to http://localhost:3380/moodle/login/index.php. I am not able to login, and there seems some issue with the homepage loading.

Administrative GUI: http://localhost:9990 (username=root, password=admin)

Server monitoring tool - Munin: http://localhost:3380/munin (username=admin, password=munindxs)

To check the authserver, go to http://localhost:5000/ (It will probably say "No Sugar platform detected, please register your laptop")

Notes:

This is only meant to be a quick demo to see what an XSCE is on your laptop/PC.

I didn't setup root login (or atleast don't know the password to it). So you won't be able to login to the XSCE once it's running. Should not be a huge issue just for end-user demo purposes.

This is just a weekend hack, I did based on a Vagrantfile supplied by Santi. At this moment, this is not officially supported or anything (but as far as I know in my testing, it works!)

If this is a useful thing to maintain (based on feedback to this thread :-) ) I (or somebody else) can propose this as a feature for 0.5/6. So there are officially supported demo appliances.

A wiki page is in the works.

Please try it out and let me know what you think of it!

Thanks, Anish

*added Info ///18/2013

It is a vagrant generated virtual machine so:

- the user/password are vagrant/vagrant

- user 'vagrant' is in sudoers group

- ssh access is possible using port 2222 in localhost

*I have an entry in .ssh/config so I can access using `ssh vagrant`:

Host vagrant

HostName 127.0.0.1

User vagrant

Port 2222

UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null

StrictHostKeyChecking no

PasswordAuthentication no

IdentityFile "~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key"

IdentitiesOnly yes

LogLevel FATAL

The insecure private key is available Github [1].

1: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/tree/master/keys

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 <satellit_f20> nice demo VirtualBox runs on almost all OS Mac Linux M$
+*[Server-devel]11/18/2013 '''The three step XSCE demo!'''
+ Hi, Had some time on my hand this week to try out XSCE in a virtual environment. It actually worked out pretty well, and now there's a working appliance. Here's the three step XSCE demo!
+ Step #1 - Download and install Virtualbox
+     Head to https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads to download the Virtualbox package for your OS.
+     Install instructions may vary for different platforms but should be pretty straightforward.
+ Step #2 - Download and install the XSCE appliance
+     Download the XSCE Virtualbox appliance from here https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3eW2YPe6koIVXRVbDhSR0xXQ1U (approx 1.6 GB)
+     [optional] Verify the md5sum to see if the image is not corrupt - 56a4f141b564b0d2bd65c543a5e585c6
+     Open Virtualbox. Go to File -> Import Appliance.
+     A dialog will appear asking you to "Open Appliance"
+     Select the file you just downloaded "b_1364170741.ova"
+     Click "Next" and then click "Import"
+     A new virtual machine will get created
+ Step #3 - Play!
+     Start the virtual machine just created. It will open a window, and an OS will appear to boot.
+     Wait till it boots. Once it has booted, a login prompt will appear in a text console. Your XSCE is now up and ready!
+     To test/demo, on the host OS (i.e., the one where you are running the virtualbox software in) open a browser
+         XSCE homepage: http://localhost:3380/
+             From the homepage you should be able to navigate to Internet In A Box. This image contains a test dataset.
+             The link to the moodle homepage will NOT work. To access moodle, go to http://localhost:3380/moodle/login/index.php. I am not able to login, and there seems some issue with the homepage loading.
+         Administrative GUI: http://localhost:9990 (username=root, password=admin)
+         Server monitoring tool - Munin: http://localhost:3380/munin (username=admin, password=munindxs)
+         To check the authserver, go to http://localhost:5000/ (It will probably say "No Sugar platform detected, please register your laptop")
+ Notes:
+     This is only meant to be a quick demo to see what an XSCE is on your laptop/PC.
+     I didn't setup root login (or atleast don't know the password to it). So you won't be able to login to the XSCE once it's running. Should not be a huge issue just for end-user demo purposes.
+     This is just a weekend hack, I did based on a Vagrantfile supplied by Santi. At this moment, this is not officially supported or anything (but as far as I know in my testing, it works!)
+     If this is a useful thing to maintain (based on feedback to this thread :-) ) I (or somebody else) can propose this as a feature for 0.5/6. So there are officially supported demo appliances.
+     A wiki page is in the works.
+ Please try it out and let me know what you think of it!
+ Thanks, Anish
+*added Info  ///18/2013
+ It is a vagrant generated virtual machine so:
+ - the user/password are vagrant/vagrant
+ - user 'vagrant' is in sudoers group
+ - ssh access is possible using port 2222 in localhost
+*I have an entry in .ssh/config so I can access using `ssh vagrant`:
+ Host vagrant
+  HostName 127.0.0.1
+  User vagrant
+  Port 2222
+  UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
+  StrictHostKeyChecking no
+  PasswordAuthentication no
+  IdentityFile "~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key"
+  IdentitiesOnly yes
+  LogLevel FATAL
+The insecure private key is available Github [1].
+: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/tree/master/keys
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