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From: Peter <pmatulis@...>
To: <misc@...>
Subject: OpenBSD as Virtualbox guest
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 3:17 pm

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.


PM
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From: viq <vicviq@...>
To: Peter <pmatulis@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: OpenBSD as Virtualbox guest
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 - 2:53 pm

I tried to install it on VirtualBox installed from their binaries on

Ubuntu box, and -current cd40.iso (or was it already cd41.iso? I don't

remember, it was not long ago) was crashing during booting. Hopefully

you'll have better luck with it.

And as others suggested, just grab the images from mirrors, and go


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viq
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From: Tobias Weisserth <tobias.weisserth@...>
To: Peter <pmatulis@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: OpenBSD as Virtualbox guest
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 4:02 pm

Hi there,


You can buy the OpenBSD CDs here:


http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html


You can also try to do a FTP installation inside your virtual box, it should

have access to the Internet if you configured your host box correctly.

There's a tiny ISO on the FTP servers that allows you to boot into the

installation program.


Another option is to create a full ISO image yourself. Just use Google to

lookup the details. It's not difficult at all.


regards,

Tobias W.
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From: Andreas Maus <andreas.maus@...>
To: Peter <pmatulis@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: OpenBSD as Virtualbox guest
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 3:35 pm

You can fetch a installation iso (cd40.iso) from a mirror

and install via network. Or support OpenBSD and buy the CD sets ^^


Andreas.


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From: Marco Peereboom <slash@...>
To: Peter <pmatulis@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: OpenBSD as Virtualbox guest
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 3:35 pm

What is wrong with the iso that is on the ftp sites?  Can't you finish

the install over the network?
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From: Darren Spruell <phatbuckett@...>
To: Peter <pmatulis@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: OpenBSD as Virtualbox guest
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 3:34 pm

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.


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Darren Spruell

phatbuckett@gmail.com
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From: Peter <pmatulis@...>
To: <misc@...>
Cc: Darren Spruell <phatbuckett@...>
Subject: Re: OpenBSD as Virtualbox guest
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 4:25 pm

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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From: Frank Bax <fbax@...>
To: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: OpenBSD as Virtualbox guest
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 - 8:52 am

Since your host is not OpenBSD, I can't see how this error can be an

OpenBSD problem.
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From: Vijay Sankar <vsankar@...>
To: Peter <pmatulis@...>
Cc: Darren Spruell <phatbuckett@...>, <misc@...>
Subject: Re: OpenBSD as Virtualbox guest
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 6:37 pm

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=openbsd40.iso


OR 


cat /dev/cdrom > openbsd40.iso


(assuming you have the OpenBSD CD in the CDROM drive)


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Vijay Sankar

ForeTell Technologies Limited

59 Flamingo Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3J 0X6

Phone: +1 (204) 885-9535, E-Mail: vsankar@foretell.ca
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From: Darren Spruell <phatbuckett@...>
To: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: OpenBSD as Virtualbox guest
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 7:27 pm

Bear in mind that this project may not be able to successfully load OpenBSD yet.


DS
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