[haiku] Re: "30 Days With Haiku" from LINUX FORMAT magazine

> > Networking works in QEMU and vmware, there is no reason it wouldn't 
> > there too...
> > What NIC does it emulare ?
> > Or do you mean sharing files via SMB from the host ?
> >   
> The only one which seemed to work has been the "Intel PRO/1000 MT
> Desktop (82540EM)". All others had not been detected by the haiku at
> all. But somehow I'm not sure if it even would have worked. This 
> virtual
> box on Linux seems to be broken. At last I had a hard time find a
> network setting which did not immediately crash virtual box. Usually 
> I
> don't run this kind of emu layers since they are asking for more
> troubles especially if not "bought" versions ( as virtual box has a 
> free
> version you can emerge... although you need to fetch the file on your

Well, QEMU works just fine.

> own ). Currently I set it to NAT as this seems to be the only one 
> which
> could work. That said it's the first time I work with virtual box. 
> Did
> it only since as mentioned below I'm running cutting edge hardware so
> the chance of haiku running on this one is less than 1% :P

QEMU should have networking on in user mode by default, which is enough 
for browsing the web.

> Concerning the shares that would be SMB shares since virtual box 
> doesn't
> know anything else. So it's difficult to get files into virtual box
> without a working network connection.

We don't have an SMB client yet.
But wget and ftp should work to the host.

> > The alpha image does have Firefox and NetSurf IIRC.
> >   
> Guess I have to check it out once again. Has been some month since I
> tested it the last time.

Grab the pre-alpha image, it has them all.

> > It's actually the best way to fix possible bugs :P
> >   
> Sure but in this case you won't have a chance. With cutting edge I 
> mean
> stuff like ATI Radeon HD 4870 and alike which depends on 3rd party
> drivers which simply do not exist yet for haiku nor would you be able 
> to
> provide them. Granted a free driver for Linux is in the works so 
> maybe
> somebody manages to port this one.

Unless it's really crappy and doesn't even support VESA it should still 
boot fine.
Just try :)

François.

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