[haiku-development] Re: VirtualBox Haiku Development Image

  • From: ian dumych <idumych@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:10:43 -0800

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
>
>

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