[haiku-development] Re: Haiku on VirtualBox
- From: "Pedro Pinto" <pemdpinto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:11:28 +0100
Yes, I have tried in both an Intel Centrino and a Core Duo CPU. I can only
run it on the latter with the VT-x/AMD-V extensions activated.
When I tried the latest version from svn on the Centrino it jumped to the
kernel debugger when initializing the scheduler.
--Pedro
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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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