From the perspective of a user, it really is somewhat difficult to figure out how to install the guest additions. What I ended up doing was installing Webpositive, searching google for the binaries, and then installing it. Most people wouldn' t know to do theses steps. What harm would there be in putting a GCC4 hybrid build of A3 on the website for people who want to test Virtualbox? On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > While I like the basic idea, I'm not sure it really worth the effort. You > > probably don't want to lose all your work every time you update, so you > will > > want to put the important stuff (like the sources) on a second drive > image, > > anyway. > > Yeah good points, so maybe we just need another VirtualBox disk > containing the source which could be added on to a basic Haiku image. > I'm just trying to think of a way to make getting started with Haiku > easier. > > Even for myself it would be useful to have a nicely set up image with > the source that I could just quickly boot up on any OS with VirtualBox > to test something or make a small quick fix. > > > What needs to be on there then? Who is to select the 'good' revisions? > > If we just relied on existing nightlies we could add a system for > rating nightlies based on user votes, which would just be useful in > its own right. > > -- > Regards, > Ryan > >