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