[haiku-development] Re: Wish List/GSoC Ideas
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:00:45 +0100
Le 22 janv. 2011 à 19:37, Sean Healy a écrit :
>> On Jan 22, 2011, at 11:46 AM, scott mc wrote:
>>
>>> But if you really really need to run a windows app, then maybe it'd
>>> be better to run windows in
>>> a VM, so perhaps change your target for #8 to be for a decent
>>> working
>>> VM on Haiku. Also by running it in a VM, when it gets
>>> bloated/corrupted/malware/virus infested, you can then just simply
>>> delete that one and start a fresh one. ;)
>>
>> Agreed with this wholeheartedly. Most of my concerns with running
>> Haiku as a primary OS would be alleviated by allowing another OS to run
> along side of it through a VM. Since QEMU has moved to the KVM world
> and the Linux-centric codebase, it may be worth taking a good look at
> VirtualBox OSE.
I started porting VirtualBox to Haiku:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.devel/3384
Nowhere near usable yet though, and I do'nt really have the time to finish it
quickly.
> In addition, sharing data would be much easier using a compatibility
> layer.
VirtualBox has a shared folder system allowing to use the host fs from the vm.
François.
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