[haiku-development] Re: Grant me TICKET_CREATE privelege?

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:53:27 +0100 CET

> > Michael Crawford wrote:
> > > Basically all that was required to make Haiku work in VirtualBox
> > > was
> > > to download the latest raw image, unzip it, and then use
> > > VBoxManage to
> > > convert the raw file to VDI format:
> > >
> > >   $ VBoxManage convertfromraw -format VDI haiku-alpha.image haiku
> > > -alpha.vdi
> >
> > You can even save this step when using Haiku's vmware images.
> >
> > There's also Alexander von Gluck's guide at
> > http://unixzen.com/index.php?url=article/view/running-haiku-os-in-virtualbox
> > > > which is a bit more involved as he installs from one image to
> > another, but it
> > still has useful pointers for simpler endeavours.
> >
>
> You don't need to convert the file, VirtualBox is compatible with the
>  vmware format natively.
>

I wonder if it's really fully compatible, I think it might be the cause
of some of the reported issues (having to dd zero blocks somewhere in
the disk...).

François.

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