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Running Haiku with VMWare Mac

Forum thread started by meep on Tue, 2009-09-15 00:01

I'm pleased to report that with minimal effort on my part, Haiku Alpha 1 successfully installed on VMWare (2.0.2) for Mac and runs well so far.

I have run into one problem however, the OS does not see the availability of my Apple Airport Connection or Wired Ethernet Adapter on my host my MacBook pro. I have configured VMWare every which way possible to make both Adapters available to Haiku. Unfortunately though, when I view the network panel in Haiku, the "Adapter" drop down menu is empty, no choices available.

Mostly posting this to see if it's a "known issue", although if anyone has a suggested solution, I am all ears.

Thx!

Haiku will not start

Forum thread started by mxl on Mon, 2009-09-14 20:25

First off, here are my specs.

Gigabyte GA-MA780G-UD3H
AMD Phenom II X3 720 black edition (3.2 ghz)
8 GB Corsair memory
ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
USB Mouse (Legacy enabled in bios)
Standard keyboard
Ethernet and USB wireless (tried to disconnect the USB

The installer refused to start at first. At the second attempt I tried to enable all safe modes possible (which made it boot "very slowly" because of disabled DMA)

After it was done installing, it rebooted and failed to boot up at the PCI type icon being the last one "glowing"
Trying to run debug it didn't give any warnings that I could see at all.
Last thing it said was something about the ownership of USB and then nothing...the system froze.
Keyboard didn't respond or anything so I had to shut it off using the power button.

Any tips? Any bios options that should be disabled? Virtualization?

Using Alpha 1

AHCI / "hddinfo"

Forum thread started by K_Shaw on Tue, 2009-09-08 20:11

This should be an easy one, I just don't know where to look. I have a laptop with a SATA HDD. I have been running the computer with the IDE emulation mode turned on ever since I got it. I heard Haiku supports AHCI so I switched the mode to "AHCI" in the BIOS and am running it right now, so I guess by still working, one could assume it was successful. But is there somewhere I can see for sure a confirmation message that the new AHCI driver is in use? "sysinfo" reports everything I could want to know about my CPU, but is there an "hddinfo"? /var/log/syslog didn't report anything of interest.

I ask also because I am experiencing occasional "bad moods" where all applications will partially freeze up for about 3 seconds about once a minute, then start working fine again. I believe it is a bottleneck in my HDD interface where anything that was trying to access the hdd is blocked. So have an interest in trying different HDD drivers/modes.

Unable to Connect to the Internet

Forum thread started by galraedia on Mon, 2009-09-07 16:27

I am having trouble connecting to the Internet using the SiS 900 integrated Ethernet adapter on my mainboard. Haiku seems to detect the adapter and it is listed as eth0 and is enabled;however, when I open the browser I am not able to connect to the Internet.

Hard disk Haiku boot problem

Forum thread started by vishy1618 on Wed, 2009-09-02 14:32

Hi guys,

After some tries, I was able to get the "Haiku" entry on my grub to boot...but now all it does is display a black screen with colored bars (kinda like the color bars on TV).

The "colored bars" are on the top-left of the screen. There is HD I/O for a few seconds and then nothing. Is this due to my monitor not being supported? I have an old Samtron 14" monitor whose maximum resolution is 800x600. I used to have troubles with this monitor when trying to run old linux distros, so...

Also, do we press F8 at startup for boot options?
Is there something I can do about this issue?

NB: I dd'ied an image I downloaded to a spare partition and then I ran makebootable on it. Everything seems to be perfect except for this.

Upgrading from BeOS R5

Forum thread started by galraedia on Sat, 2009-08-29 18:48

I'm trying to upgrade from BeOS R5 to Haiku but I am having problems installing it.
I downloaded the raw image file and burned it to a disk through Windows 2000. However, the disk is only readable in BeOS. When I start BeOS and mount the CD to the desktop I see a bunch of files and stuff and I'm not sure as to how I'm suppose to install Haiku. I remember having the same problem with BeOS Max Edition v4 but I later on figured out that I had to use a floppy disk to boot from so that I could install BeOS Max Edition to the hard drive. However, there doesn't appear to be a bootable floppy disk image for the installation of Haiku on this site. If someone could help me I'd greatly appreciate it.

Problem with starting VMWare image

Forum thread started by Rogier on Mon, 2009-08-10 21:31

Hi all,

I just downloaded a nightly VMWare build and I have VMWare Workstation under Windows, but it fails to start Haiku using the provided VMX file. The error when starting the virtual machine is: "File not found: haiku-pre-alpha-gcc4.vmdk"

I updated the VMX file so the VMX and VMDK file names are the same and correctly entered in the VMX file. What else can be the problem?

Below is my VMX file:

#!/usr/bin/vmware
.encoding = "windows-1252"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "3"
 
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
MemTrimRate = "-1"
 
uuid.location = "56 4d 20 2e e7 51 21 3a-cf 1f 8c a4 85 aa 04 9b"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 20 2e e7 51 21 3a-cf 1f 8c a4 85 aa 04 9b"
 
uuid.action = "create"
checkpoint.vmState = ""
 
displayName = "Haiku - prealpha - gcc4"
guestOS = "other"
memsize = "256"
 
ethernet0.present= "true"
ethernet0.startConnected = "true"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"
 
serial0.present = "true"
serial0.fileType = "file"
serial0.fileName = "haiku-serial-port.txt"
serial0.tryNoRxLoss = "FALSE"
 
usb.present = "FALSE"
 
sound.present = "FALSE"
 
scsi0.present = "FALSE"
 
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
 
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "haiku-pre-alpha-gcc4.vmdk"
ide0:0.deviceType = "disk"
ide0:0.mode = "persistent"
ide0:0.redo = ""
ide0:0.writeThrough = "FALSE"
ide0:0.startConnected = "FALSE"
 
ide0:1.present = "FALSE"
 
ide1:0.present = "FALSE"
 
ide1:1.present = "FALSE"
 
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:aa:04:9b"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
 
tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"
 
extendedConfigFile = "haiku-pre-alpha-gcc4.vmxf"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
tools.upgrade.policy = "manual"
 
fileSearchPath = "G:\Virtual Machines\Haiku;."
 
policy.vm.mvmtid = "52 34 74 ac 5a ed 7e b3-5e 87 51 55 f5 2d 84 51"
policy.vm.managedVMTemplate = "FALSE"
policy.vm.managedVM = "FALSE"

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