[mesa-users] using MESA for education

[Josiah Schwab]

On  8 June 2014 at 12:14 PDT, Dean Townsley wrote:

> My suggestion would be to provide a "live DVD" that can be put on a DVD 
> or USB stick and booted on a PC.  One that would contain a linux 
> distribution with MESA pre-built and setup.  Then the student could just 
> grab some inlists from dropbox or a website and go.  Ideally there might 
> be some user data area on a USB stick too.  Or just put important things 
> back on dropbox.

As is, MESA (9GB) can't fit on a DVD (4GB).

Does anyone have any experience running MESA in a VM (e.g., VirtualBox)?
Any idea how much of a performance hit there is?

A VM image would have the advantage of not requiring the students to
provide any installation media.

Josiah