I am completely new user of haiku. I have tried to download image from http://www.schmidp.com/index.php?option=com_files&path=/haiku/images/ and run Haiku in VMWare Player under Windows 2k on TOSHIBA Portege 7020CT, but when running Deskbar or Tracker from terminal (as described in http://haiku-os.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=4496#4496) I got some "runtime_loader : troubles reading ELP header" error.
Could enyone tell me what should I do now ?
By the way, registering to this forum is quite painfull as the confirmation code is not being displayed because the HTML instead of <img src="profile.php?mode=confirm&id=123456" alt="" title="" /> is like <img src="profile.php?mode=confirm&id=123456" alt="" title="" />. But maybe this is intended to be a test if the user is smart enough…
this is my VMX file:
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "3"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
MemTrimRate = "-1"
uuid.location = "56 4d da ca 9a 36 5c 80-9a d1 11 60 40 5d 7d a0"
uuid.bios = "56 4d da ca 9a 36 5c 80-9a d1 11 60 40 5d 7d a0"
uuid.action = "create"
checkpoint.vmState = "haiku.vmss"
displayName = "Untitled VM"
guestOS = "other"
memsize = "96"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:5d:7d:a0"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
usb.present = "TRUE"
usb.generic.autoconnect = "FALSE"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualdev = "sb16"
scsi0.present = "FALSE"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "haiku.vmdk"
ide0:0.deviceType = "disk"
ide0:0.mode = "persistent"
ide0:0.redo = ""
ide0:0.writeThrough = "TRUE"
ide0:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ide0:1.present = "FALSE"
ide1:0.present = "FALSE"
ide1:1.present = "FALSE"
tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"
The only tip I can offer you at the moment is that you must keep in mind that these are not official images. There very well could be something broken in any of these images that prevents them from working properly, and you can try a newer image later to see if it was fixed.
I will try to give one of the new images a go later tonight using VMWare and see if I run into the same thing. Depends on how much free time I get 
zdenek.hrib wrote:By the way, registering to this forum is quite painfull as the confirmation code is not being displayed because the HTML instead of <img src="profile.php?mode=confirm&id=123456" alt="" title="" /> is like <img src="profile.php?mode=confirm&id=123456" alt="" title="" />. But maybe this is intended to be a test if the user is smart enough...
Using & in URIs is the right thing to do *, but it should be cleaned (er, unentitized? to &) by the browser before it uses them. What’s yours ?
I downloaded a new VMWare PLayer for Windows a little while ago, and grabbed the latest VMWare image from Philipp Schmid’s website (r16414).
Loaded it up and ran /boot/beos/system/Tracker& to load tracker…
No problems here.
I loaded pulse, chart, etc. with no issues. It’s been running now for 10 minutes with no issues.
Maybe try another image?
thank you for the quick aswer.
first about the registration form. I viewed it in IE 6, , Opera a and firefox/mozzila, but only the last browser displayed the code image. [Beta is right with the entities in CDATA attributes, the problem is somewhere else, although it could be resolved (for IE and Opera) by unescaping the ampersand in attribute src. If you look more closely on the code from registration form, you will find that first two (not the last two) of the "<br />" tags is written as "<br />" and I guess this is the primary cause.
<td class="row1" colspan="2" align="center"><span class="gensmall">If you are visually impaired or cannot otherwise read this code please contact the <a href="mailto:no-reply@haiku-os.org">Administrator</a> for help.</span><br /&gt;<br /&gt;<img src="profile.php?mode=confirm&amp;id=c5ec725767a8c8a4121ea249a70b8e94" alt="" title="" /><br /><br /></td>
and now about haiku: the problem get resolved somehow by itself, I do knot know how but when I turn it on some time later, the Deskbar application apeared on the desktop. I have executed the Tracker without problems. But after a while, something strange happens in the Deskbar application and it offers me a debug window. But do not worry about this, I will not have time to experiment with it anyway, but I will keep an eye on this project. As soon as it will have some official images that I could check out, I will be glad to torture this OS a little bit on my PC.
zdenek.hrib wrote:I have executed the Tracker without problems. But after a while, something strange happens in the Deskbar application and it offers me a debug window.
I experienced some instability also - after loading Chart for example, it wouldn’t close and I had to kill it - at which point Deskbar also died for me.
I messed around with it in VMWare a few times, once it just hung on me, another time I ended up in KDL…
Please be patient - it is very much more stable than it was a month ago, and it is getting more stable every day I’m sure!