[haiku-development] Re: Wish List/GSoC Ideas
- From: Alexander Bisogiannis <alexixor@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:04:44 +0200
On Saturday 22 of January 2011 23:00:45 François Revol wrote:
> 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.
This is great news!
A working VBox in Haiku will be a god send.
Alex Bisogiannis
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