On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Fernando Cassia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Grant McWilliams > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> On Friday 12 September 2008 00:50:44 Grant McWilliams wrote: >>> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:25 AM, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> > wrote: >>> > > I downloaded a couple. Since I never got my own ReactOS install to >>> > > run on >>> > > vbox, I took that one. >>> > > >>> > > 1. I cannot create a new VM to use this vdi because it is already >>> > > registered. >> >> I'm not sure what it is that you're doing but just to test I downloaded >> the ReactOS 0.3.3 vdi, installed VirtualBox2, disabled my kvm-intel module, >> created a new machine with other as type and specified the vdi and it fired >> right up. > > Virtualbox works just fine. I guess people don't know how it works. > > I had no problem downloading and running ReactOS: > > 1. downloaded the .7z vm, > 2. fired VirtualBox 2.0, > 3. Clicked on "New machine" > 4. Gave it a name (copy/paste from xml file provided) > 5. also set the RAM size (copied from XML file, "145 MB" ) > 6. Selected on the drop-down OS type "other/unknown" > 7. In the "Virtual hard disk" setup screen I clicked on the "Existing" > button > 8. I got a list of vdi files already configured on my virtualbox, I clicked > on "ADD" > 9. I maneuvered with the file requester until I found the "ReactOS > 0.3.3.b.vdi" file, clicked on it and selected "Open" > 10. From the list of known vdi files I highlighted ReactOS 0.3.3.b.vdi, and > clicked in "select" > 11. The VM was ready, I ran it and... ReactOS started! > > I don't get it how people can still say it doesn't work.
There could be a variety of reasons. For one, if you try to use the existing XML file, then you will run into problems if your Host OS is *not* the same as the one it was created on. -Amit -- Amit Kumar Saha http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/ http://amitksaha.blogspot.com Skype: amitkumarsaha _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
