what? guest additions! i need VIRTUAL BOX I WANT TO VIRTUALIZE! not make virtual! i want touse haiku as main OS but lack of important apps made it impossible!
i want a working good pcsxr emulator and a pcsx2 emulator! a capable virtual environment with haiku as main OS not as virtual OS!
As a stop-gap solution, in Haiku you can use this script to send and receive files to a Dropbox account:
You know this is an open source project right? Shouting about a lack of something is not the most effective way of getting what you want.
If you want to help, pick up a compiler and get coding. Otherwise feel free to request features, but shouting loudest isnāt going to convince anyone to help you out.
Itās a community project done in everyoneās (severely lacking) spare time at the end of the day.
yeah thatās right @adamfowleruk but the problem its that one only men like me are not enought, must be all in collaboration, but i noted thereās no focus in those apps missing from haiku!
i have enought eperience with āmake it yourselftā triying and puff no moreā¦ must be in collaboration! and here thereās no focus on those appsā¦ the most important for me are the virtualbox due have very easy to use user interface and management tools
And likewise āshoutingā at people making suggestions for improvements to an open source project is equally futile :P. People who will contribute will continue to do so and pestering people on the forum isnāt going to change that. At some point it just becomes line noiseā¦ also thought you were posting at me when I wrote this and it made me a bit grumpy sorry for that.
If anything something that can cause a project to grind to a halt is lack of ideas and methods of generating funding.
Also I kind of doubt weāll get native virtualbox supportā¦ I wonder if our crosspolination with FreeBSD would lend itself to porting http://www.bhyve.org/ ā¦ Haiku could of course call a GUI front end for that BeHyve 
Maybe then we could have docker packages on Haiku (trying vainly to stay on topic).
Just port it, mate.
alternatively, consider donating some bucks to the project. This could help hiring a paid dev to perform complex tasks like this.
Wow, i only hear i want this and that, thats your part in this community? If this all is so important for you and you like haiku so much, just learn programming and help to make haiku better.
The Haiku Installer also seems to work as a way to do full backups. Just select a different target device to āinstallā to.
Very true, but that isnāt really a continuous backup solution like available elsewhere.
Honestly, there are enough applications on Haiku for me to use it as a daily driver! The only applications that would be nice would be a mainstream web browser (a qtwebengine port looks to be in the works so that might come soonā¢) and a file syncing application. Iām trying to compile MEGASync at the moment, how hard can it be 
Everything else is just things like EMMC drivers and proper GPU drivers so I can use dual monitors.
The Haiku team has done an excellent job and only hope it gets better!
As an aside, Iāve noticed that there is no port of gtk2/3; is there a particular reason for this? Technical/licensing/itās really big and no-one has had the time or patience to get it working?
maybe you can check this https://github.com/Skycoder42/QtDataSync
iām not tested yetā¦
other alternativeā¦ https://sourceforge.net/projects/synkron/
āItās really big and no-one has had the time or patience to get it working.ā GTK is kind of a mess in so many ways, nobodyās wanted to dive in and try to get a port working.
I think I need wine
Even on the developer side using GTK instead of building it, i canāt agree more on this.
You would probably see much software before it. Wine is a bit complex to port, imo. But i would like to have old stuff running in Haiku with it, like Starcraft.
Would Wine even be possible to port at all? Isnāt it heavily reliant on Unix syscalls? I know that Haiku can handle some of them, but can it do all of them? A port may require so much code to be changed that it basically amounts to a rewrite of the entire codebase.
No. I wish. That would solve some apps porting issues.
I guess it wouldnt be so popular nor a priority right now, but a working version of some software to run old windows games would be good. Not dosbox games, which is on pkgman already
Edit: through a quick search, seems like dosbox can run windows 95 and Starcraft over it 
must test that on Haiku.
Not really needing wine if you have a way to run the app (although booting the OS would be a bit overkill).
Thatās absolutely no problem.
The code should check for features, capabilities, not just blindly assume something (=linuxism).
If some features absolutely needed, one can implement support for it in Haiku.
But is way too much talk, assumptions, subjective oppinions and other useless things regarding wine. If one wants it, should go and try to compile it. Only so can one know what needed, which features should be added to Haiku, and what kind of other software ports should be created.
Maybe we can ask someone on the Wine team to consider bringing it over to Haiku? Perhaps once their work on the Android version is done, they might consider it. Then again, Wine is (as of time of writing) heavily reliant on X (which isnāt in Haiku).