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Hi Everybody!

I'm having a bad moment trying to install Haiku under VMware. I follow directions in http://www.haiku-os.org/documents/user/installation but when start the virtual machine I get an error message:

Cannot check for the existence of an old redo log for disk "d:\VM\Haiku\haiku.vmdk". Failed to configure disk ide0:0. The virtual machine cannot be powered with an unconfigured virtual disk.

I have tried both in Windows and Linux as well as vmware version 1 and 2. I've also tried to rename haiku-alpha.vmdk to haiku.vmdk but no success.
Sure I'm doing something wrong but don't know what. Any tip would be appreciated.

Thank you very much for your help in advance.

Tolingo

I found that the March 26th Haiku Pre-Alpha worked on the first try in VirtualBox. On the Haiku development list, Niels Reedijk asked me to post details about my configuration. Maybe I just got lucky by stumbling on the right settings.

First you need to make a VirtualBox compatible disk image. To do that, download one of the raw Haiku images and unzip it.

I used the pre-Alpha r29739 build from March 26th.

Now convert is from the raw format to the VirtualBox VDI format:

$ VBoxManage convertfromraw -format VDI haiku-alpha.image haiku-alpha.vdi

A raw image is a physical copy of an entire disk drive, basically what you'd get if you used the dd command with "bs=512" and copied the entire disk device into a regular file.

I don't know all the details, but basically a VDI also adds some metadata as well as some compression by not having to store sectors that are all zeroes. The VDI images will grow in size as these zero sectors get non-zero data written into them.

Next add your VDI file to the Virtual Media Manager, then create a new virtual machine and attach your VDI file to it.

Here are all of my settings - I didn't see a network interface at all with the PCfast NIC, but with the Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop the net came right up, configured by DHCP and all, so right away I was able to use the web browser, ssh and cvs.

I'm running Fedora 10 Linux on a Core Quad Xeon - x86_64. I'm not able to get sound working, but otherwise everything else is working really well.

Maybe my particular settings just happened to get lucky...

VirtualBox 2.1.4 - the official Sun version, not the Open Source version.

Base Memory: 268 MB
Video Memory: 32 MB
ACPI: Enabled
IO APIC: Enabled

I think the APIC may be important because it distributes interrupts evenly among multiple CPU cores, and is used on just about all modern PCs as far as I know.

VT-x/AMD-V: Enabled

The VT-x/AMD-V is probably important - that's hardware support for virtualizing guest OSes that don't have explicit support for virtualization. That is, if you have hardware virtualization, you should be able to run any PC operating system.

Only certain models of CPUs have the hardware virtualization support - just recent ones, and even then just higher-end models. I thought that all of Intel's latest chips had VT-x but they don't; you have to check the specs on Intel's website, and similarly for AMD's chips.

VirtualBox can run an OS without hardware virtualization; I'm not real clear what the difference is in the case of VirtualBox - maybe it just runs slower, or not as well.

Windows 2000 runs just fine on my Core Duo MacBook Pro - that's the first-generation Core Duo, not the Core 2 Duo; it doesn't have VT-x.

Xen, by contrast, can't run an OS like Windows at all unless the CPU has hardware virtualization; without it, the guest OS kernel has to be extensively patched - or "paravirtualized" - to enable Xen support.

Nested Paging: Disabled
PAE/NX: Disabled
IDE Controller Type: PIIX4
3D Accelleration: Enabled

(GLTeapot gets hundreds of frames per second!)

Network: Intel Pro/1000 MT Desktop (NAT)

USB: Disabled

I can't get sound to work at all though, and with certain VirtualBox Audio settings, I get a repeatible crash when I restart the media server.

I hope that helps.

Mike

I wanted to dual boot Haiku and XP on my EeePC 1000H, and after a few days of troubleshooting I was able to get it all working. I thought I would post a condensed version of the steps below.

(I recalled these from memory, and tried to double check every step, but let me know if there are any errors.)

1) Get Haiku installed on a USB stick or SD card, the following article worked like a charm.

http://www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/how_to_install_haiku_to_usb_flas...

2) Make sure you have a free partition on your internal drive, and make sure it has been setup before you start installing Haiku, as the option to create a new partition using DriveSetup isn't implemented yet. Boot Haiku from the USB Stick, launch DriveSetup and initialize the partition with BFS. Give the new disk a name other then "Haiku" so it won't conflict with the boot drive, I named mine "Haiku HD".

3) Mount the new drive and copy all of the files from the root of the USB stick to the root of the new drive.

4) Open a terminal window and cd into the /bin directory, run the following command:
makebootable /Haiku\ HD

after that is done run this command:
dd if=/dev/disk/path/to/haiku/partition of=/Haiku\ HD/home/haiku.img bs=512 count=1

5) Now copy the haiku.img file to another FAT formatted USB thumb drive, or if you have network access, email it to yourself. Reboot into Windows.

6) Once back in Windows, Copy the haiku.img file to the root of the c:\ drive. Open the c:\boot.ini file and add the following line to the end of the [operating systems] list:

c:\haiku.img="Haiku"

(Sometimes, even after you enable "show hidden files" you cannot directly access boot.ini, but you can still edit it by using "Control Panel > System > Advanced > Startup and Recovery > System Startup > Edit")

7) Reboot, you should now be prompted to select which OS to boot, select Haiku and sit back and enjoy the Haiku goodness.

Hi Everybody!

I have installed Haiku on my eee, and it is running really really well. I am trying to get internet access without using an ethernet cable to make the best use of the portability of the machine. I realise that wi-fi and Bluetooth/GPRS are out of the picture at the moment, but I thought I would have some success using my mobile 3G connection over a usb cable. Sure enough Haiku is picking the mobile up as a usb_ecm device quite happily, but syslog shows the DHCP is timing out without successfully setting up the connection. I looked into setting up the connection with static IP addresses, but when I ran some tests on another OS the subnet ranges alter with each setup, so DHCP seems necessary.

Have I missed something in the setup? Is the usb_ecm driver capable of doing what I want, or do I just have to wait until some other connection method becomes available?

Cheers,

Matt