Importing data/apps to Haiku@VMWare

Forum thread started by humdinger on Fri, 2007-02-23 17:33

Mellow greetings!

I finally installed a VMWare image of Haiku on my new notebook. After a few months without BeOS it's a relieve to see a familiar face again! :)

Playing around with the bundled apps is nice, but I'd really like to see which 3rd party software already work. How can I get apps/data from either a BFS backup CD or from a dowload from within Windows (NTFS formatted HD)?

Or is that impossible yet?

I seem to be able to ping my HD-Satreceiver. ftp and wget refuse to connect though.
Any ideas anyone?

Haiku rocks!
Blibbering Humdinger

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The two methods I use most

by j_freeman - 2007-03-11 20:13

The two methods I use most often are:

a) Download the programs/files you would like to access, and add them to a CD image using your favorite program (I prefer WinISO on Windows), and then simply tell VMware to use this image as your CD drive. You can then mount the drive in Haiku and you're on your way.

b) Create a new virtual machine in VMware, and install BeOS Max. Then in your Haiku virtual machine, add the BeOS Max's VMware hard drive as a second drive. Under Haiku, simply mount that drive and you have full access to your BeOS Max volume (with all the cool bundled programs that come with it). You could probably bypass installing BeOS Max in the first place and simply tell VMware to use the Max CD image as the CD drive (like method A above). I prefer using the Max hard drive because it's more flexible and allows you to download new programs under Max and use them in Haiku.

As for being able to ping but not use wget, etc... you may need to add your DNS server into /etc/resolv.conf before you can use hostnames in addition to IP addresses:

echo "192.168.1.1" > /etc/resolv.conf (replacing the IP with your DNS server of course)