[haiku-development] Re: Haiku on VirtualBox

Hi Dennis,

No, it does not work without virtualization extensions. In the comments at
the bottom of the page someone says:
" Yes, it works, you just have to enable VT-X/AMD-V in the advanced
settings... Without this it won't run. "

--Pedro


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Dennis d'Entremont <
dennis.dentremont@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:32 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?
> >
> >
> Haikuware already has a Virtual Box Haiku VM here
> http://www.haikuware.com/view-details/development/app-installation/superpack-virtual-box-edition
>
> So it does work.
>
> --
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