Haiku in Virtualbox?

Submitted by Paul Hackett on Sat, 2008-04-26 20:12.   Tags: 

I've been using Haiku/Senryu in VMware Server Console for a few weeks under Ubuntu.
Now after upgrading to Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04), it seems that VMware Server doesn't work in Ubuntu now.
The preferred virtualization tool is Virtualbox.
Can anybody point me to a guide to get Haiku/Senryu working in Virtualbox?
Alternatively, would you advise me to look more to Qemu rather than Virtualbox in the absense of VMware Server?

koki
Submitted by Jorge G. Mare on Sun, 2008-04-27 19:29.
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Now after upgrading to Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04), it seems that VMware Server doesn't work in Ubuntu now.

This may help you:

http://blog.creonfx.com/linux/how-to-install-vmware-player-workstation-o...

umccullough
Submitted by Urias McCullough on Sun, 2008-04-27 20:52.

Also, someone in #haiku mentioned another set of (different) instructions that might provide an easier solution for some:

http://eitchpress.eitchnet.ch/?p=13

darkwyrm
Submitted by DarkWyrm on Mon, 2008-04-28 10:18.

I don't think it has ever worked. I've been able to set up an image using a raw nightly build and VirtualBox's included converter, but it crashes before getting to the desktop. Bug #1230: http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1230

umccullough
Submitted by Urias McCullough on Mon, 2008-04-28 16:13.

Actually, it just occurred to me that I've heard several people report success in VirtualBox (I don't use it, but I do hear others in #haiku talk about it occasionally) - apparently it *does* work if you turn on the hardware acceleration features (requiring virtualization features in your processor apparently).

That's all I know, sorry.

paulfxh
Submitted by Paul Hackett on Mon, 2008-04-28 19:13.

Thanks for all the replies.
Actually, the any-any update did the trick but you also need to use the hack described here.
The whole process is described here.
Before I found how to get VMware Server working in Hardy, I had tried, albeit briefly, both Qemu and Virtualbox.
Qemu worked fine although I couldn't get a network connection in Senryu.
On the other hand, I couldn't get Virtualbox to work at all with Senryu.

kvdman
Submitted by Karl vom Dorff on Tue, 2008-04-29 01:03.

Senryu does work in VirtualBox, if your processor supports virtualization, and you've enabled it in your virtual machine. See the screenshots where you download it.

Really, Vmware is the best way to go since audio, network, video & burning have support - plus it's the quickest in my testing. To me the most important is network support, and I can't get it to work in anything other than Vmware or Qemu.