virtualbox

GSoC Introduction: VirtualBox Guest Additions

Blog post by scgtrp on Fri, 2011-04-29 11:45

Hello. I'm Mike and I'll be porting part of the VirtualBox guest additions to Haiku. My full proposal is here, but briefly, the features I plan to port include:

  • Mouse pointer integration
  • Shared folders
  • Shared clipboard
  • Time synchronization
  • An improved video driver
  • Guest control (executing commands on the guest from the host)
  • Guest properties

During the community bonding period I plan to spend a bit of time reading more code and discussing with the developers to learn more about how things work in both Haiku and VirtualBox. I also plan to play with mmu_man's patch to get it to work with the latest versions of VirtualBox and Haiku so that I have a working base to start from when the coding period starts.

Haiku in VirtualBox

Blog post by koki on Thu, 2007-01-25 18:59

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.

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