On 9 May 2013 16:34, Richard Stonehouse <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 9 May 2013 08:27, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Richard Stonehouse provides a bootable VM >>> image which is quite nice. >> >> I had not heard of this. I have downloaded it now. It will not import >> into VirtualBox, nor can VBox mount its hard disk on its own. > > It used to work in VirtualBox under Linux - see: > www.rstonehouse.co.uk/extras/GNUstep-VM-0.9 > You need to download both the .ovf and the .vmdk file, probably the .mf file > too.
Aha! Thanks for the reply! Yes, I downloaded all 3 and put them in a directory of their own and tried to import them as described, although I used the "import appliance" menu option rather than the CLI. When importing, I get an error that the VMDK file is already attached. If I create a new VM and tell it to use the VMDK as its hard disk, VBox complains that it is invalid -- it cannot read its size, free space or anything else. > Can you tell me what version of VBox you're using and what platform you're > running on? Latest VBox (4.2.12 r84980) on the latest Ubuntu (13.04), 64-bit, on a Core 2 Quad Extreme with 8GB RAM, 1TB HD. So plenty of room. > As a possible alternative, I've had it working under a recent VMware Player > (though only tried under MS Windows). [Nod] I have not yet reinstalled VMware Player - I prefer to use FOSS tools if possible - but this was my next plan. I'm busy on something else right now, though. >>> Richard makes his RPM packages public too. > > My RPM packages that are available just now are rather old, built for > gnustep-make 2.6.0 etc on an openSUSE 11.4 platform. I'm building a set of > the latest GNUstep releases on openSUSE 12.3 and hope to have at least some > of them available in the next week or two. I think Fred Kiefer has GNUstep > RPM packages available on the openSUSE Build Service. I don't have OpenSUSE running any more - after some years with it as my main OS, I switched away in 2004 when Ubuntu first appeared and have not regretted it for an instant. :¬) (I must confess that for the first year or 2, I kept a parallel install of the current OpenSUSE so that I could configure my twin screens -- originally on a pair of Matrox cards, later on a single Matrox G550 -- under OpenSUSE and then copy across the XFree86/X.Org conf file.) I really do not miss YAST at all. ;¬) Once I learned APT, I could not stomach YAST2 at all any more. Red Hat's YUM is catching up these days but I favour the more mature tool. Also, RHEL is too expensive, CentOS is free but always rather behind the times, and Fedora is too unstable for me. However, I'll see if I can locate the packages to which you refer and will spin up a SUSE VM to give it a try. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
