On Tuesday 27 February 2007 14:25, Peter wrote: > Le Mardi 27 Fivrier 2007 14:34, Darren Spruell a icrit : > > On 2/27/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm looking for comments from people who have installed OpenBSD 4.0 > > > as a Virtualbox guest. I am currently running Virtualbox 1.3.6 on > > > Gentoo Linux 2006.1. The manual does not mention OBSD as guest > > > even though their website states that it is possible. My main > > > question is how to create an OBSD image since it seems that I need > > > an ISO image. > > > > You can't boot off of your CDROM? > > > > As for images, you can installer images in CDROM format and floppy > > format off of the FTP mirrors. > > Are you talking about the "install ISO's" like cdrom.iso or floppy.iso? > If so, yes, I can use them. I thought I needed a full-blown release > ISO. > > I am also stuck at launching the virtualbox interface itself. I get > either a segmentation fault if started using a non-priv user or > an 'authentication rejected' error if I 'su -c virtualbox'. I have > tried the usual trick of 'xhost +' as the non-priv user and then su to > root and 'virtualbox' but I get the 'cannot connect to X server' stuff. > Any help appreciated. I am dying to boot up OBSD on this thing. > > PM >
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