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The images don't have a graphical user interface installed to save space. The idea is that only the Sage process is running in the virtual machine, and notebooks are displayed using the host's web browser. You can also share directories with the virtual machine and ssh into the virtual machine, for the record. So you can access pretty much everything from the host machine.

If you really want to run a full graphical desktop in the virtual machine, you can just use the package manager to install it:

sudo yum install gnome-desktop

This will install everything necessary for a graphical desktop.

The images don't have a graphical user interface installed to save space. The idea is that only the Sage process is running in the virtual machine, and notebooks are displayed using the host's web browser. You can also share directories with the virtual machine and ssh into the virtual machine, for the record. So you can access pretty much everything from the host machine.

If you really want to run a full graphical desktop in the virtual machine, you can just use the package manager to install it:

sudo yum install gnome-desktop
groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment"

This will install everything necessary for a graphical desktop.

The images don't have a graphical user interface installed to save space. The idea is that only the Sage process is running in the virtual machine, and notebooks are displayed using the host's web browser. You can also share directories with the virtual machine and ssh into the virtual machine, for the record. So you can access pretty much everything from the host machine.

If you really want wanted to run a full graphical desktop in the virtual machine, you can could just use the package manager to install it:

sudo yum groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment"

This will install everything necessary for a graphical desktop.desktop. However, the virtual harddisk space is very limited. I tried this command and it failed due to insufficient space. One could try to resize the harddisk, but it is probably easier to install a fresh virtual machine from scratch.