This is a quick guide to the locations of various forms of Sugar and the XS school server software that can run in QEMU emulation or VMware or VirtualBox virtualization. You can download installation .isos for other Linux distributions that support Sugar and create your own bootable images with Sugar installed. See QEMU or VirtualBox for how to run an image, and Supported systems for more information on what is available.
Other virtual machines
VirtualBox
- Appliance of Sugar on a Stick v3 Mirabelle
read this first
- download and import 3 files: soas-v3-Mirabelle.ovf soas-v3-Mirabelle.mf soas-v3-Mirabelle.vmdk
- 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 mfopenSUSE-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
VMware Player
- VMware Player appliance of nightly composes of Sugar on a Stick (soas-i386-20100818.16.iso)
- VMware Player of Sugar on a Stick v2 (Blueberry)
- Open-suse-education
QEMU
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:
suyum install zyx-liveinstaller gparted
easyvmx
- Make a VMplayer Appliance with-out needing copy of VMworkstation
- web site that builds a vmx file to your specifications (free)
- Works Fine, runs on most platforms, and has persistence
- VMplayer download (free):https://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
Sugar on a Stick
 |
This page has been marked as important but in need of updating as of May 2016. See all dated pages There may be relevant discussion on the talk page. |
Current
- Mirabelle-v3 (Current) [2]
- SoaS Downloads page (includes Legal Torrent sites) - See SoaS Strawberry and Main SoaS pages for more context.
- VMware#Soas-Strawberry.iso_installed_to_VM_Hard_DiskHow TO: Soas-strawberry VMPlayer Appliance
- VMware#Prebuilt_Sugar_ApplianceopenSUSE prebuilt vmx file
Prebuilt VirtualBox Appliances:
- Blueberry-v2: [3] ReadME:[4]
- Mirabelle-v3-(Current): Sugar_Creation_Kit#Prebuilt_Virtualbox_Appliance ReadME:[5]
Older builds
- Sugar on a Stick downloads
- Snapshots 0.84, bleeding edge
- soas-beta-1 Zip vdi (dated: 20 April 2009) for use with VirtualBox
- Boot USB Stick with VMPlayer and VM Appliances (testing)
Routine (formerly daily) Builds
- olpc:Rainbow Security testing. Not recommended for Sugar users.
- Fedora Rawhide Both .isos and .imgs. These are no longer LiveCD images, so changes will persist between boots.
- olpc:Joyride Not being maintained; to be replaced by builds of various Linux distributions.
XO 1.5 test
Fedora 11 with Sugar 0.84 and Gnome. There are preliminary versions of this software built for XO 1.0, in .img and .iso files. In a menu at the bottom of the initial screen, you can choose either Sugar or Gnome sessions before logging in.
Chris Ball promises a regular release schedule of 1.5 builds by the time XO 1.5 prototypes enter production. If you're interested in contributing or testing, they would certainly love your help. You can find them on the fedora-olpc mailing list, and freenode IRC's #fedora-olpc channel.
Releases
- Prebuilt Sugar 0.84 images are not yet regularly available.
- Fedora Sugar Spin image
- NOTE:later Fedora 12 SUGAR 0.86 Spin: http://spins.fedoraproject.org/edu/
- olpc:XS_LiveCD XS Installer Warning: If you are not paying attention, this will format your hard drive. Of course, if you boot this in kvd/qemu/VirtualBox alongside an empty hard drive image, you probably want it to format your drive image and install the School Server.
- Various Linux distro installation images, where Sugar can be installed from packages: Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu Intrepid (but not Jaunty so far), ALT Linux, Mandriva, Caixa Mágica, Gentoo, OpenSUSE, Slackware. Not all of them work. Note that the command to start Sugar is usually 'sugar-emulator'. The command 'sugar' will seem to start, but will have a broken UI, and packages will not start.
Live CDs
- Live CDs by Wolfgang Rohrmoser (8.2)
- Build your own Sugar Live CDs
- Sugar 0.84 LiveCD proposal
sugar-jhbuild
- binary.iso 27-Nov-2008. You would do better to install Fedora in an image, and build sugar-jhbuild there. Unfortunately, sugar-jhbuild does not build reliably on Debian-based distributions.