[haiku-web] Re: Outdated and misleading "Haiku and VirtualBox" page
- From: Disreali <mdisreali@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:07:13 -0700 (PDT)
--- On Mon, 9/21/09, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > As pointed out to me by someone on IRC, the following
> page...
> >
> > http://www.haiku-os.org/node/2546
> >
> > ...is outdated. Haiku has been working in VB for a
> long while now, so
> > the content of the page is also misleading.
>
> > To avoid turning people away from trying Haiku in VB,
> this page needs
> > to be updated. If it cannot be updated right away,
> then I would like to
> > at least temporarily unpublished until it is revised.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> Are all the virtual box issues resolved then? I seem to
> recall hearing that there are still crashes during
> compilation of apps while using Haiku on VirtualBox.
> Furthermore, I believe older versions of VirtualBox
> are even more unstable, with only the latest versions being
> reasonably usable now. I think if anything, caution should
> be provided to let people know that Haiku in VirtualBox
> has suffered stability issues in the past and many of
> those issues do not turn up on real hardware.
>
> - Urias
There is an intermittent issue that seems to only appear on VirtualBox, that
has been very tricky to nail down. http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/2845
You are correct, the 3.x versions of VBox are much better than previous ones.
However, I have experienced the block/writer issue once since upgrading, yet
the issue was gone on the next pre-alpha revision. I have not experienced the
issue with the alpha1 release.
I agree with Urias, let users know there were issues in the past.
-D
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