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?