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intro to sugar vb vm
In this exercise we will install a virtual machine (VM) that natively uses the Sugar desktop environment (DE). This is an approach that you should be able to follow on your own desktop or laptop computer. It complements the use of the RIT network-hosted VMWare VM already created for your use at:
We will generally follow the process from
but instead of using Finnix live image, we'll be using
This is a customized instance of a Debian Live Build
- the VM name sugar-live
- 1GB RAM
- a new virtual hard drive also named sugar-live
- 8GB hard drive
- VMDK hard drive
- break drive backing files into 2GB chunks
Remember to note the location on the host system where the image is installed, and to associate this image file with the virtual CD-ROM drive of the VM in the VirtualBox storage configuration window.
During the installation, you will be asked to create
- a root user password
- a name for a regular user account
- a password for the regular user account
You can set these to whatever, but since these will always run effectively behind a firewall, and since password resets will be a pain to effect, I recommend keeping it simple:
- root password 'root'
- user account name 'hfoss'
- user account password 'sugar'
We ran into a current known bug in Sugar when launching our RLES VMs during Week 5.
This is easily remedied, though:
Hitting Ctrl-2 will bring up the Home view.
Hitting F6 or Alt-Shift-f bring up the frame.
Several of the Sugar environment hotkeys make more sense when considered in light of the special symbology mapped to the keyboards of the OLPC XO keyboard
See also OLPC XO Keyboard shortcuts.