At 03:25 PM 2/27/07, Peter wrote:
>Le Mardi 27 Fivrier 2007 14:34, Darren Spruell a icrit :

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> > On 2/27/07, Peter  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.

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

OpenBSD problem.