[mesa-users] using MESA for education

[Bill Paxton]

On Jun 8, 2014, at 5:43 PM, Josiah Schwab wrote:

> 
> 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).


How big is it if you don't send all of mesa but instead just what is needed to run mesa/star.

no source code.  tar files for data.

i bet you could get that on a DVD.











> 
> 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
> 
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