[haiku-development] Re: Developer Virtual Machine

  • From: Jorma Karvonen <karvonen.jorma@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 19:54:19 +0300

+1

2010/5/15, Karl vom Dorff <karlvd@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I find the disk images released by Haiku a little restrictive by their
> default size (having only a couple hundred megabytes to play with). The
> included blank 2gb disk image is nice, but why not just make one image with
> a default size of 10-20gb? I created a blank 20gb VMDK expanding disk; size
> = 3.8 mb.
>
> Secondly, why not make a developer image that has all the developer tools
> built, environment set up, and includes Haiku's sources? Checking out the
> sources takes hours.
>
> I made such a disk image a while ago (Senryu
> Developer<http://www.haikuware.com/directory/view-details/development/miscellaneous/senryu-developer-edition-vmware-image>),
> that contains all of Haiku's sources. The benefits are, you don't have to
> spend time reading how to check out Haiku and setup your environment, spend
> more time checking out the sources, or mess around figuring out how to
> increase/re-install Haiku to a new Vmware image that's big enough to do
> anything. The size of the file was 187 mb, and can be downloaded in minutes.
> Just double click the VMX, svn up, and you have your up-to-date portable
> development environment ready to go.
>

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