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======[[File:VirtualBox.png|50px]]'''Set up MacBook to Open VirtualBox'''======
======[[File:VirtualBox.png|50px]]'''[[Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Autostart_Virtualbox_Mac|Setup Mac to Autostart VirtualBox on startup]]'''======
:: '''..automatically when you power it on'''
:how to set it up
:Mac OSX Version 10.6.8
*Open System Preferences/Accounts
:use Spotlight:
::magnifying glass on right end of top bar
:search for "accounts"
:Choose System Preferences| Accounts
*Click on your user
:unlock
:login Options/
:Login Items (to right)
:Click Add(+) button to the right of the accounts list
:Select an application '''VirtualBox  -  Application''' and click add.
:lock
*Boot Mac
:Mac opens directly to VirtualBox VirtualBox Manager
:Pointed to VirtualBox Appliance - (the last one used)
:: You can select another on list
:==> Start
* Now when the MacBook is powered on, it will boot up in VirtualBox pointed at the last Virtual Appliance used
:'''There can be multiple VirtualBox appliances, belonging to individual students/teachers to choose from, on the same Mac.'''
:Nice school set up for 1 Mac with multiple student's Sugar.
:'''easy to archive''' with '''export''' function of VirtualBox  - save weekly? backups for each of the students.
: To roll back: import the previously exported file -  quick and easy
 
* [[Improve_Sugar_on_a_Stick#Where_we_need_to_simplify| Where we need to simplify]]  We need a simple, elegant, Sugar specific UI that is presented to the user when they insert a stick into a running Windows machine.
*Suggestion-1:
:Download the 2 files for VirtualBox import to a 2nd USB stick
:On insertion; the contents of the USB stick pop up
  An example:
  f16-live-RC4-Desktop-sugaruser-disk1.vmdk
  f16-live-RC4-Desktop-sugaruser.ovf '''<==click on this file and it immediately imports into VirtualBox (less than 2 Minutes)'''
  (Only the .ovf file icon is highlighted in the USB stick contents)
*Suggestion-2:
:Export the VirtualBox .vdi hard drive to a 2nd USB and create a new machine that uses the .vdi to run
:/home/(user)/VirtualBox VMs/ (copy all three files to USB-stick)
:Create a new appliance
:use pre-existing hard disk
:Look for .vdi (on USB-stick)
[[File:Trisquel_running_from_Ext_USB-stick.png|200px]]
;click on image ^ to enlarge
:Use your browser (back) <== arrow to return here
*This is OS agnostic for a system with an installed VirtualBox 4.1
 


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