[openbeos] Running Haiku in Virtual Machines
- From: "Ryan Leavengood" <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:34:59 -0500
I haven't yet set up a real machine for testing Haiku (though I
probably will soon) so for the moment I have been using virtual
machines. I first started with VMWare on Windows and thanks to the
vmHaiku program from Sikosis (thanks man) I got that running pretty
quickly.
But I can't make fixes while in Windows so I looked into the
BeOS-hosted virtual machines and eventually got Haiku booting in the
last experimental build of QEMU. But there is a problem: it is
ridiculously, insanely, mind-numbingly super duper slow. The machine I
have BeOS on is a 1.33 GHz Athlon with 512 MB RAM and it runs Be quite
nicely but when I run Haiku in QEMU on this box it uses almost 100%
CPU and the Haiku inside the emulator is super slow, as I said.
So my question is: has anyone else run Haiku inside QEMU on BeOS and
gotten decent performance? If so, could you provide tips and tricks?
Also what is the quickest way to update components inside a image
while on Windows? The only thing I can think is to mount the image in
BeOS on a different machine, update it, unmount, FTP that image to the
Windows box and then re-open it in VMWare. But that sure would be a
pain for frequent changes while testing (though automation might
help.) But I guess we will just have to deal with that kind of stuff
until the TCP/IP stack is further along.
Regards,
Ryan
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