ArcheOS VirtualBox

Nicola Schavottiello nic@imagoculturae.com
Thu Dec 13 20:28:56 CET 2012


That's a shame! it would have been nice to have a portable OS, this is 
for many reasons:
portability(in fact), testing purposes, convincing people to migrated 
from other OS, teaching etc...
Well... I hope that in the future will run faster or that there will be 
a portable version.
Regards
Nic

On 13/12/2012 17:33, Domenico Giusti wrote:
> Personally I've never installed ArcheOS in a USB drive with success,
> but Ricardo has done, as posted in this mail:
> http://lists.linux.it/pipermail/archeos-dev/2012-January/000293.html
> As he wrote "ArcheOS revealed to be a very "heavy" and slow operating
> system to run from a pendrive" (with GNOME).
> Instead, I'm feeling very satisfied with my virtual machine but I can't compare.
>
> Regards
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Nicola Schavottiello
> <nic@imagoculturae.com> wrote:
>> What about running on a pen drive or on an SD card?
>> Is this possible?How is it done? Does it run faster or slower?
>> Many thanks
>> Nicola Schiavottiello
>>
>>
>>
>> On 13/12/2012 12:41, Domenico Giusti wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I've recently helped some students from the University of Ferrara to
>>> install ArcheOS in their notebooks (most of the time with M$ or MAC
>>> OS). So, as graduated FLOSS pusher of the Department, for a
>>> low-traumatic first approach, I usually suggest to my clients to
>>> install Virtual Box and then create their virtual ArcheOS from the
>>> ISO. My ArcheOS (built from git repository) also runs in a VB machine,
>>> and some times I've exported and shared my own virtual machine.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking it could be fine if ArcheOS will also be released in a
>>> virtual disk, like OSGeo Live does
>>> (http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/virtualization_quickstart.html).
>>>
>>> Have you ever discussed this possibility?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
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