[haiku-development] Re: Haiku on VirtualBox
- From: "Dennis d'Entremont" <dennis.dentremont@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:22:31 -0300
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Pedro Pinto <pemdpinto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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. "
Well at least I learned something new today :)
Cheers!
>
>
> --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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>
>
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