Rather than create a new VM and setting the disk image, I think you have to choose File->"Import Appliance" in VirtualBox, and select the .ovf file. You should get an "Appliance Import Wizard". You can accept the default settings, then there will be a progress bar which takes a few minutes to do the "import" (not sure what it is doing.. decompressing the image?)
I will add a note to the website explaining this procedure :) -Eric On 2009-09-17, at 2:28 PM, Justin Lolofie wrote: > I'm using Virtual Box 3.0.6 r52128 on Mac OSX 10.5.7. > > I'm just unzipping your file, creating a new virtual box and pointing > the new virtual disk at the .vmdk file you provided. > > Is that all you do? Do I need to change permissions on any files? > > Thanks for your help, > justin > > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Eric Wasylishen <[email protected] > > wrote: >> Hi Justin, >> >> Hm.. I'm not sure what the problem is; I haven't seen any errors like >> that. >> >> The only requirements should be using fairly new VirtualBox version >> (I >> think I made the image with VBox 3.0), and importing it with File- >> >Import Appliance. >> >> I am using VBox 3.0.6 on OS X 10.6, and the image worked for me >> recently. What host OS / VirtualBox version do you have? >> >> Sorry I don't have any better ideas right now.. >> Eric >> >> On 2009-09-17, at 12:19 PM, Justin Lolofie wrote: >> >>> Does anyone have instructions for how to use the Etoile image with >>> VirtualBox? >>> >>> I tried to use the image from the downloads page and got a lot of >>> "Read-only filesystem" errors. Next I get the "failed to start X" >>> blue >>> screen followed by the etoile-dev login prompt. The file permissions >>> errors relate to /var/log/..., /var/lib/..., etc. >>> >>> Thanks for any help, >>> Justin >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Etoile-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Etoile-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
