Haiku in VirtualBox

Blog post by koki on Thu, 2007-01-25 18:59
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Today I woke up to the news that Haiku was mentioned at MYCOM Journal, a Japanese IT related news site, in a regular column known as OSX Hacking. This time the author was playing with VirtualBox and he tried running Haiku on it. Well, he did succeed, but the speed was not up to the expectations. GLTeaPot ran at the incredible speed of 1.3FPS (yes, you read right!), on a first generation MacBook 1.83GHz. Here is another screenshot of the entire Haiku desktop running in VirtualBox.

I should note that the author does conclude that VirtualBox still has a long way to go when compared to VMWare and Parallels (both of which run Haiku pretty snappy, btw). Anyway, nice to see an instance of Haiku making it into the mainstream media in Japan.

Thanks to Kakeru-san for the heads up. ;-)

Comments

TQH

by tqh - 2007-01-26 14:27

I wonder how hard VirtualBox is to port to BeOS now that it's open source. They state that they did design it to be portable.

BeOS port

by koki - 2007-01-26 19:49

Hi tqh,

tqh wrote:

I wonder how hard VirtualBox is to port to BeOS now that it's open source. They state that they did design it to be portable.

I don't know, but VirtualBox does have some interesting (and unique?) features like support for RDP and USB over RDP, so it would be a nice port to have at some point in time.

VirtualBox on Windows

by rochk - 2007-02-02 10:52

Anyone knows how to make Haiku running on VirtualBox under Windows? The OS X version of VirtualBox uses vditools to convert raw Haiku image to .vdi image. Any ideas how to achieve this in Windows? Many thanks!

/RochK

Unfortunatly no

by tqh - 2007-02-02 11:29

I actually tried to find any info on that yesterday, and failed.

Re: Haiku in VirtualBox

by FleetCommand - 2007-12-23 11:40

You can convert raw images to vdi using "VBoxManage.exe convertdd inputfilename outputfilename.vdi" command.

However, Haiku won't boot, according to others' bug report, it crashes under VirtualBox.

Re: Haiku in VirtualBox

by scottmc - 2010-12-23 04:58

Here's a How To for installing Haiku in VirtualBox:
http://www.haiku-os.org/node/3872