Haiku 4.1 Actually Works on Parallels 7

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Hello everyone, I purchased months ago Parallels 7 moving away from Virtual Box, but unfortunately Haiku never worked. Some people said “you know just download Virtual Box” but it wasn’t an option, I didn’t purchased Parallels to use yet another virtualization software. Anyway I tried booting from the ISO but it does’t work It just stays there trying to load the OS into memory I guess.

Then I read a post in the Parallels forums about someone complaining that networking wasn’t working on Parallels 8 but since I am stuck at 7 (didn’t qualify for free upgrade for 1 month :’( ) I downloaded a demo of Parallels 8 and the Haiku .image and used this instructions :

bunzip2 haiku.image.bz2
dd if=/dev/zero of=haiku.image bs=1024 count=1 conv=notrunc seek=408600
mv haiku.image haiku.hdd

then created a new virtual machine with that hard drive and to my surprise it boots Yay! now I wen’t back to Parallels 7 and after two failed boots it is now fully booting even with USB and network enabled.

I have to try to do the same instructions straight from Parallels 7 and try to do some internet browsing. Funny thing is that a couple of days ago I ordered a PC just to Install Haiku on it, and it is now in transit to my house.

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This is my first message from Haiku A4.1 runing over Parallels with network enabled!

Ok so I tried to do the same straight from Parallels 7 and it doesn’t work. It appears it only works from parallels 8 only but the image works on Parallels 7. The hard drive reports a size of around 700MB altough the configuration says 8.0GB I gues Parallels doesn’t understand BeFS at all ( no suprises there). I’m going to try to create a second fixed size hard drive and install it from there.

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Yeah that would be because the image you dded is that size… that can happen if you dd it to a real parition also. But it will be fine if you create a new disk and install to that and then make that the primary disk I believe. I usually end up repurposing my swap partition as a temporary befs install partition whenever I update. (my laptop has no cdrom so yeah)

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Yes, I just did that and it works. Anyway my PC arrives this Tuesday although without HD nor RAM and I plan to install it there.