No problem. I couldn't remember, so I fired up the virtual machine again with version 1.4.2, I selected make new folder on desktop and pushed extract button with no pkg selected and it did the same thing; it crashed and began deleting things wildly, so that must be it.
No worries, i didn't lose anything critical luckily. I will just further isolate the tool by making the shared folder read only from the guest from now on.
I ran this in a windows 7 virtual machine with a shared folder attached, I selected a pkg from the shared folder and when I clicked make new folder on the desktop, this tool proceeded to delete EVERYTHING on the desktop and in the shared folder from my host machine instead of making a new...
Linux guide by me
1. on linux install apache2 for ubuntu sudo apt-get install apache2
2. the default directory for serving files is /var/www/html/ so simply create a symlink there to your large pkg with commandsudo ln -s /path/to/your/game.pkg /var/www/html/
3. prepare your usb drive by...
I've had a few troubles getting some games to work testing this out, but I wanted to say massive thanks to the developers and everyone involved in this. It's brilliant and hopefully this is the foothold in the door that non-flashable consoles need to enable homebrew in the future.
Just wondering if the ps2 emulator presents a possible attack surface for this to be a full exploit like cfw and if so, ps2_netemu.self is where you would look to find this exploit right?
Sorry if this doesn't make sense, I don't know much about the ps3 and how it works yet.