That should be doable. I am not familar with Haiku, but I guess it should have something like Linux's loop module? our virtual disk driver is something like the loop module, by mounting a vhd file, and acts as a dsik. --- On Sat, 4/10/10, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote: From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Linux VHD Boot available - download and boot your physical pc, also runs as vm To: vbox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Saturday, April 10, 2010, 1:43 AM Hi, Le Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:38:12 -0700 (PDT), Huihong Luo a écrit : > For your information, we used VirtualBox disk source code to make > Linux > VHD boot possible. Source code will be provided later after more > cleanup, > and with VDI/VMDK support added. > > A sample Ubuntu VHD package is ready for download: > > http://www.vmlite.com/index.php/download/22-appliances > (free site registration required) > > download, extract it, then double click setup.exe on Windows, reboot > > detailed instructions: > > http://www.vmlite.com/appliances/ubuntu-910-readme.html > > screenshot: > > http://www.vmlite.com/images/vboot/vboot-grub2.png > > VMLite Team Interesting, sounds quite much like what BeOS was doing with their IMAGE.BE trick, except it was using hardcoded name to find the image (BEOS/IMAGE.BE in fat and ext2 partitions) and it was more specific ;) I think Haiku <http://haiku-os.org/> could easily support this as well. Our bootloader supports getting args from multiboot info though it doesn't use them yet. And I started to write the code to support the IMAGE.BE scheme as well but didn't finish, I'll have a look at supporting this some day. (Our kernel currently requires using our own bootloader though our loader but it can easily be chained from grub.) cf. http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/system/boot/loader If I had time I'd propose helping with testing on the Mac as well but I'm too busy :p François. -- BeOS did it 15 years ago! _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev