Do any of you have any experience with that year’s models with Haiku?
I’ve got a mid-2014 MBP with iGPU and run Haiku in a VM.
Haiku boots via rEFInd on bare metal but the screen is unusable. Only a blue stripe on the left and top. Getting into the boot menu and selecting safe mode or disabling any of the other option doesn’t make Haiku to boot properly on my machine.
Until I figured it out, it’ll need to run virtualised.
In Virtual Box it’s limited to a screen resolution of 1600 x 1200 and runs smooth with 2 cores and 4GB RAM.
In Qemu via CLI on the other hand it runs rather slow with 2 cores and same amount of RAM but screen resolution can be as high as 3840 x 2160. I reckon it’s slow because the CPU is emulated by software whereas Virtual Box utilises the machine’s CPU.
In VMWare Fusion 8.5 on OSX10.15 I don’t get anything on the screen at all. The machine’s display remains dark, only the thumbnail in Fusion’s machine library shows the output, no matter what the machine’s display settings are. Can’t get the boot menu to show either.
Edit: in regards to Haiku on Qemu I found this post: Qemu on MacOS Host - rather slow performance in Haiku Guest