[haiku-development] Re: Haiku on VirtualBox

On 31/03/2008, Pedro Pinto <pemdpinto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm interested on adding VirtualBox support to Haiku (without virtualization
> extensions). There is a ticket (56) on VirtuaBox track saying:
>
>
>
> "There are two or three major problems with their OS: 1) Very picky timing
> loop during boot (calculate_cpu_conversion_factor() in
> haiku/src/system/boot/platform/bios_ia32/cpu.cpp) 2) ss
> selector checks all over the place. As the ss rpl is one in VBox, it will
> take the wrong code path. 3) Peculiar lss instructions (perhaps never
> executed) with possible selectors that are not wide open. Correcting this is
> not trivial and with possible bad side effects, therefor I won't fix it.
> This OS doesn't warrant the necessary engineering effort required to get it
> running.
> So there are two possible workaround: - use VMX or AMD-V hardware
> virtualization (see manual for turning it on) - Haiku should rewrite certain
> parts to be a bit more virtualization friendly"Has anyone worked on this
> before, how difficult can it be?  Any advices of how to start?

I have heard several people (in #haiku usually) claim that Haiku does
now work in VirtualBox - so that ticket may no longer be accurate. I
think perhaps these people may be using the VMX compatible option,
however.

Have you tried it yourself yet?

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