I just tried the latest nightly build in Virtual Box. I created a 10 GB virtual drive, asked DriveSetup to initialize the drive for BeFS and install Haiku. On reboot, there was a boot error, which might have been from Virtual Box. I ran the installer again, and DriveSetup showed the virtual disk as having a 2.5 GB BeFS partition, and the remaining 7.5 GB as free space.
It seems there’s a major regression with DriveSetup. I’ve never had so much difficulty with DriveSetup and getting Haiku running as I’ve had today.
And the virtual network in VirtualBox sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. After Haiku was installed, the network didn’t work. I rebooted, and the network worked. I tried to install BePDF from HaikuDepot, and Haiku froze during install. I rebooted the VM, and now networking doesn’t work again. VBox is showing an Intel network adapter which I have bridged to my Ethernet network, and sometimes Haiku isn’t getting an IP from DHCP, yet seems to get DNS settings somehow.
Before someone else mentions it, yes, I know that Haiku comes in two flavours at the moment: beta and pre-alpha-testing. Neither are perfect or big-free. But recently it’s gone from the occasional odd bug to almost not usable. I was using an older nightly build when doing some software porting, and using it for hours on bare metal with zero OS problems.