Hiyas,
Trying out Sculpt 23.10 in VMware Workstation (17.5.1) today, and found some initial hurdles that seem like they should get fixed. :)
When looking at options on the Sculpt download page:
https://genode.org/download/sculpt
... it seems like a choice of either a .img file, or a .ova file.
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Problem 1:
The .img file doesn't seem to work with VMware Workstation, as it just shows "GRUB" (in the top left) like its partially loading... then just hangs there.
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Problem 2:
Trying the .OVA file instead (File -> Open -> choose the .ova file), the import process throws up a warning message that the .ova "did not pass OVF specification conformance".
(screenshot attached)
That warning can be ignored though, in which case VMware keeps going for a few seconds then throws a hard error about "Capacity mismatch for disk2.vmdk".
(screenshot for this attached as well)
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It looks like the .ova file format is just a renamed .tar file though. So untarring it works, revealing two VMware disk images (.vmdk). Manually creating a new VM (2 cpu cores, 2GB ram) and assigning those disks to it gets things working.
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Problem 3:
VMware doesn't seem totally happy with those disk images. In disk info window (after importing) the "Current Size" for the disk is 16,777,216 TB. Very much not correct. ;)
It's also reporting the same figure for "System Free" (also very much not correct), which seems like a VMware bug to me.
(screenshot attached too)
The field instead has the correct "System Free" value when I check the disks of other VMs on my system.
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Anyway, I thought the above might be useful to mention in case someone wants to look into them.
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
