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Emulator image files

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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

VirtualBox

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download and import 3 files: soas-v3-Mirabelle.ovf soas-v3-Mirabelle.mf soas-v3-Mirabelle.vmdk
download and import 3 files: soas-2-blueberry.ovf soas-2-blueberry.mf soas-2-blueberry.vmdk
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

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

See here for other experiments

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

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