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How to install VirtualBox Guest Additions

Forum thread started by abda11ah on Tue, 2013-07-09 23:58

Being a newbie at this, I had zero success so far. I don't even know how to compile the source code... The only post of any help on this is here: https://www.haiku-os.org/node/4997

First of all, I'd like step-by-step instructions on how to download, compile, and install VirtualBox Guest Additions in Haiku Alpha 4.1 (or latest nightly image). I can't seem to download the code from here: https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Additions/haiku

If that doesn't work, how to install this pre-compiled package wold be great: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~clemens/haiku-vbox-additions-20110723-r2.zip
I extracted the files into root, and edited UserBootscript, but nothing changed except a new crash on shutdown.

Thank you for your time.

Eiskaltdc v. 2.2.8

Forum thread started by kim1963 on Wed, 2013-06-26 02:33

http://eiskaltdc.googlecode.com/files/Eiskaltdcpp-2.2.8-gcc4.zip

Canna (japanese input method)

Forum thread started by un_spacyar on Tue, 2013-06-25 23:57

Hello. I'm using the Canna input method, and I would like to know if there are a keyboard shortcut to switch between "hiragana", "katakana", etc (I mean, to swith between the different options of Canna).

The only shortcut that I found is "Alt+Spacebar", but this is only to switch between "Canna" and the standard keyboard.

Thank you for your help!

Installed fine but when system ends up in a reboot cycle right after bios screen.

Forum thread started by spectre51 on Sat, 2013-06-22 05:56

Was a BeOS user back in the day. Started with R4. Finally got around to installing Haiku today in an attempt to get my old software up and running. I installed alpha 4 to an old Dell Dimension 4300 P4 1.6 ghz with 1gb of ram and a 10gb hard drive. Install went fine but when it reboots and goes past the Dell Bios screen it automatically reboots and goes back to the bios screen. I booted off the live CD just fine just can't get it to boot off the hard drive. Windows 7 and Ubuntu install and run fine on this machine.

Really hoping someone has an idea on this.

Alpha 4.1 Won't Boot on IBM ThinkPad X30

Forum thread started by robertson on Wed, 2013-06-19 17:34

Hi all,

I have an IBM ThinkPad X30. I currently have Haiku Alpha 3 installed on the internal hard drive. I installed it a few days ago from a USB thumb drive. I am trying to boot Alpha 4.1 off of a USB thumb drive. It currently does not work.

On the graphical boot screen, the rocket (the last icon) lights up and then the boot hangs with the USB thumb drive's light still flashing. The system still responds to Ctrl-Alt-Del at this point.

If I enable the on screen debug output, the final lines displayed are:

est: cpu_type: 4203 vendor 4096 model 107
est:extended_features: 0
PMA: found no free slot to store 64 bytes, waiting
Last message repeated 2 times.
usb_disk: operation 0x35 failed at the SCSI level
usb_disk: request_sense: key: 0x05; asc: 0x20; ascq: 0x00;
usb_disk: request_sense: illegal request
PMA: found no free slot to store 64 bytes, waiting
Last message repeated 15 times.
Last message repeated 13 times.
Last message repeated 6 times.

At this point, the boot hangs with the USB thumb drive's light still flashing.

The number of PMA: found no free slot... and Last message repeated messages varies. Additionally, I once saw

PMA: found no free slot to store 32 bytes, waiting

between the typical 64 byte messages. Also, the same time the 32 byte version of the error appeared, the three usb_disk: lines were not present (or at least they didn't show up in their usual place at the end of the boot sequence).

I also tried the hrev45770 Nightly Image with a similar result.

I am posting here to see if there's a fix and also to get my approach to the problem sorted out before I file a bug report.

Thanks in advance,
James ("Robertson")

(wifi firmwares) well, this certainly doesn't look right

Forum thread started by Sarreq Teryx on Tue, 2013-06-18 01:09

I don't think I'm doing anything wrong here...

Welcome to the Haiku shell.

~> install-wifi-firmwares.sh
Installing firmware for iprowifi2100 ...

gunzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
... firmware for iprowifi2100 has been installed.
Installing firmware for iprowifi2200 ...
... firmware for iprowifi2200 has been installed.
Installing firmware for broadcom43xx ...

bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly;
        perhaps it is corrupted?  *Possible* reason follows.
bzip2: No error
        Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)

It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.

You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.

tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
/bin/install-wifi-firmwares.sh: line 271: cd: b43-fwcutter-012: No such file or directory
Downloading http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/plain/src/system/libroot/posix/glibc/stri... ...
2013-06-17 22:01:02 URL:http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/plain/src/system/libroot/posix/glibc/string/byteswap.h [1489/1489] -> "/boot/system/data/firmware/broadcom43xx/b43-fwcutter/byteswap.h" [1]
Downloading http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/plain/src/system/libroot/posix/glibc/incl... ...
2013-06-17 22:01:08 URL:http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/plain/src/system/libroot/posix/glibc/include/arch/x86/bits/byteswap.h [4592/4592] -> "/boot/system/data/firmware/broadcom43xx/b43-fwcutter/bits/byteswap.h" [1]
Compiling b43-fwcutter for installing Broadcom's firmware ...
... failed to compile b43-fwcutter.
...failed. broadcom43xx's firmware will not be installed.
Installing firmware for marvell88w8335 ...
tar: This does not look like a tar archive

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
mv: cannot stat `/boot/common/cache/tmp/wifi-firmwares/share/examples/malo-firmware/malo8335-h': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/boot/common/cache/tmp/wifi-firmwares/share/examples/malo-firmware/malo8335-m': No such file or directory
... firmware for marvell88w8335 has been installed.
~>

'Hybrid technology', which is best ?

Forum thread started by mounty on Thu, 2013-05-30 23:48

I'd like to start using Haiku but rely on several applications on GNU/Linux, including one which is closed source. It seems that one way to start using Haiku is as a 'head' OS because I've got GNU/Linux on VirtualBox and already run it headlessly. The question is which technology is most mature or advanced, to allow use of both Haiku and GNU/Linux:

1. an X server running on Haiku.
2. an RDP client running on Haiku.
3. QEMU or other running on Haiku.

?

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