Hello,
I am happy to report a very smooth initial experience with Sculpt TC running in VirtualBox. I followed the tutorial (skipping the parts about virtualization, of course), and everything went well, with the exception of the minor error I will describe below. The Sculpt Manager is surprisingly convenient and mature, and the under-the-hood improvements are impressive as always. I really like the direction things are moving!
My only problem was building the "image/disk" version of the image.
For development, I am running an up-to-date Debian Unstable, which has worked well for me so far.
Here is the relevant part of the output:
checking configuration syntax CHECK init using 'core-nova.o' as 'core.o' Run script aborted because gdisk is not installed Makefile:312: recipe for target 'run/sculpt' failed make: *** [run/sculpt] Error 1
In fact, "gdisk" is installed, but it doesn't run under a normal user. I could hack the scripts to use "sudo", but I thought I'd check here first, in case there is a simple solution (since Ubuntu and Debian usually operate similarly).
I obviously don't expect Linux distro tech support - if there isn't an easy answer, I'll just install Ubuntu.
Thanks!