Hi I have VMWare Fusion 7 and cannot Run Haiku on it. I load the vmx file & get an error on startup
“The virtual machine is using a hardware version that is not supported by this version of VMware Fusion”.
Ideas?
Using a MacBookPro 2011.
Create a custom virtual machine and manually attach VMDK image from http://download.haiku-os.org/nightly-images/x86_gcc2_hybrid
Thanks using WHICH of the choices there?
That didn’t work. I need more hookup guidance…
If I use an ISO what do I select to import it as? There is no Haiku Selection. Linux??
It sounds like you are trying to run an old version of Haiku. If that’s the case, try editing the vmx file and change virtualHW.version from “3” to “6”.
Or possibly better, grab a recent nightly build from the URL posted by Diver above.
Why not download and use VirtualBox, or qemu? While I’d recommend Gnu/Linux or Solaris for VBox personally, even on Mac OS X, you could use Homebrew to get the latest qemu packages or run VirtualBox just fine on it as well. I don’t have anything against VMWare, (other than that it is a non-free solution that you might be able to avoid), which is why I’ve posted the above tips of sorts.
Nevertheless, as for Fusion, I’d recommend first checking for updates (something may have been patched), then clean installing R1A4.1 or newer (i.e. a nightly release) in your VM. I hope that helps you out…
We have a guide for VMware Fusion on this website, but I never realised that it was of such poor quality until now. Still it might be of help to you nonetheless: https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/virtualizing/VMWare-Fusion
Ok to whoever Richenyhus is:
Thank you. he VMware instructions don’t work for the VMX image but the ISO ones do. If you are a board sysop, I would be happy to help you re-write that page so it is easy to follow.
My name really is Professor John Kercheval, BTW.
How do you shut down Haiku once it is running?
Where can we get programs for it?
What do you guys use it for?
Thanks, John
Hi Professor John,
Are you the vulture capital guy? Welcome to Haiku.
Some answers to your questions:
How do you shut down Haiku once it is running?
Click on the leaf in the upper right corner, then shutdown/power off
Where can we get programs for it?
You can run HaikuDepot from Applications menu (again, click the leaf). Additional
applications are found on Haikuware.com but may need some assembly first.
What do you guys use it for?
Haiku is intended to be an alternative to OS’s that are out there currently.
Haiku is designed to be lightweight, very responsive, and oriented towards personal
media. It features low latency access to audio/video sources, so it will be ideal
for near-real time media applications among other things. it has a single, simple
windowing and GUI API. That and the whole OS is written in clean, orthogonal C++.
It’s highly modular and a great vehicle for research and proof of concept development.
I’m in the process of writing up the value proposition for the Beta 1 release.
Just curious, but what lead you to Haiku?
Yes I am the Vulture Capital guy.
I sold PCs at the UC Berkeley school ASUC store right after the famous Super Bowl Macintosh ad in January 1984.
My first PC was the HOP Portable Plus which ran DOS but which was not IBM program Compatible. I have long been a fan of alternative operating systems, esp the NexTSTEP system. I really wish NexT had lasted.
Right now I have built a system with FOUR OSes running right on top of each other on a MacBook Pro- OSX on the bottom, Win 7 64-bit on top of that, NexTSTEP on top of that, and good ol-dos at the very top. Four OSes running at the same time on the same computer.
Big alt-OS fan. Just getting into the BeOS. That brought me here.
Very cool! Yes, a lot of us love the old hardware and think about what could be instead of what is given to us. NextStep was truly amazing, as you say.
You can run BeOS in emulation to get a feel for what it provided. In emulation you don’t get the amazing response time that comes with having a dedicated thread for each GUI window, due to the emulation overhead. And sadly, you have to pull out some old hardware if you want to run BeOS on bare metal. All the great design features of BeOS were reverse engineered into Haiku. Haiku is a wholly separate code base and yet is reasonably/somewhat binary compatible with old BeOS binary applications. There is some real talent as well as blood, sweat, and tears that have gone into Haiku to get is this far.
At this point Haiku does most of what BeOS did, and does it on modern hardware.
In the next few months we hope to release Beta 1, which will signify a complete set of features (mostly) before the ‘production’ release.
Just this morning I got Haiku running on new Gigabyte system with a new quad core Intel CPU. I’m working on some demos to show off the razzle dazzle.
If you like what you see, please consider making a donation. We have several highly talented developers working on essentially minimum wage knocking off the bugs, prepping for Beta 1.
If you have an email I can send you the pre-release notes. That goes for anyone else, too.
Also, my prefered way to run Haiku is to burn the Haiku ISO onto a CD, then install it onto a flash drive, and boot from the flash drive. It works great.
Indeed I shall donate. Just bought a brand new BeOS Version 3. Will be experimenting with that.
REMEMBER!
They laughed at Wilbur Wright when he invented his younger brother, Orville.
They said he would never get him off the ground.
If I could make a suggestion - go directly to BeOS 5.1. It was the latest, greatest, and last version. They packed a lot in between V3 and V5.1.
Thanks and regards,
Andrew
Also, for those of you that use Amazon.com, if you use smile.amazon.com, you can setup your account so that Amazon gives a little bit, every time you buy something, to your favorite charity…of which Haiku, Inc. is one of them…
I am already heading back to using punch cards.
Lol!That’s an entirely different OSS project!
I ran into the same issue. You need to upgrade your virtual machine to one supported by vmware fusion 7. Below is a link to a vmware fusino knowledge base article that explains how to do this:
Do we need to adjust our VMDK nightly packages for this?
Hi Professor,
I am the marketing person and Adrian (PulkoMandy) is one of our core devolpers.
We would definitely welcome any improvements to the guide.
We use a basic sub-set of html on this website, but we can easily convert plain text writing into this html sub-set. The source of the article can be found here if you wish to use it: http://pastebin.com/xA5M6n6m
Cheers,
Richard.