[haiku] Re: Python on Haiku
- From: Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 21:45:45 +0000
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 21:28, Roland Plüss<roland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ryan Leavengood wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Roland Plüss<roland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> makebootable did the trick. Now let's see if we get this Python/SCons combo
> up and running :=)
>
>
> Another option that a lot of us use (in VMs and on real hardware) is
> to have a second disk for development and personal files.
>
> This makes it easy to completely update/upgrade/replace your main
> Haiku partition without distrupting your working files.
>
> I'm not sure about VirtualBox but for VMware you can use the qemu-img
> program from the QEMU project to create an empty vmdk, which you can
> then add to your VM and initialize with BFS in DriveSetup in Haiku.
>
>
>
> VirtualBox has something similar. You can make a fixed or dynamic disk image
> which you can then make available and setup using DriveSetup. Older versions
> did not work with BeOS concerning dynamic disk files but the new version
> actually does support it. Had the same idea about using two images.
>
Very recently, blank bfs images have been added to
http://haiku-files.org/files/blank-bfs/
512mb, 1024mb, and 2048mb.
Both as raw image files and an expanding image for vmware.
I've no personal inclination to expose these on the website or
anything like that.
--mmadia
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