win 10, virtualbox 5.1.4, sage 7.3

[Temperus Tempus]

Hello,

I´ve installed virtualbox 5.1.4 on win10 system and imported sage 7.3.ova.

When I try to start sage with the green arrow at virtual box it comes until the sage promt, where I have to login.

When I login with sage, pw: sage, I get: Last login: ..." and prompt.

The notebook didn´t start automatically.

So I try to start it with "./ notebook-browser (as I found out with ls command).

But I only get: (chromium-browser:1622): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

What´s the problem? Couldn´t find any help in the net.

Thanks in advance.

[multiscalar]

You might want to consider just installing  a linux virtual machine and building sage from source there.

It's a little bit more work than importing an ova, but longterm it's more usable. The linux OS + built sage

should fit in 10GBytes, so you can in principle have several versions.... 

[Dima Pasechnik]

On Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 7:38:13 PM UTC, multiscalar wrote:

You might want to consider just installing  a linux virtual machine and building sage from source there.

It's a little bit more work than importing an ova, but longterm it's more usable. The linux OS + built sage

should fit in 10GBytes, so you can in principle have several versions.... 

10GB is wildly optimistic.

With all the tools you need to build/run Sage, you probably would need that much for them, excluding Sage.

I'd reserve at least 30 to 50 GB...

[multiscalar]

I let VirtualBox do dynamic allocation for the disk. I installed Centos7 development/creative station and built sage7.3 from source. 

The size of the .vdi file is ~8GBytes. That shouldn't be too surprising; if you compare that to the .ova file (~3GBytes) the vdi is bigger

but still comparable...they essentially do the same thing.

[multiscalar]

I should correct that, the size of the .vdi file is in fact ~20GBytes not 8.

[Temperus Tempus]

Hello,

Thanks for your hints.

But now it works also with ova on win 10:

- Newest VirtualBox 5.1.6

- Sage.ova 7.3

- Instructions according to 

  -- https://ask.sagemath.org/question/32344/vm-virtualbox-sage-70ova-how-to-start/

That works well.

Don´t know if it matters: I increased ram of the virtual drive to about 3000 MB and graphics memory up to about 36 MB