Someone pointed me at this and I thought why not? I decided to have a go at installing it under Virtual Box. Here are my notes and links …
What I found
- Get Haiku NB Even W11 count as x86 for some reason!
- How to install Haiku on Virtual Box, from which I learnt, you need a reasonable RAM, you need to use the installer to format and partition the disk. and reset the mouse. I found this at Haiku Community which is a blog article. Date: May 2025
- And here’s a page on virtual box from the community, the functionality of guest additions maybe a problem, specifically the screen size.
- I then wanted to change Haiku desktop wallpaper, a video by Paul although most of this text is about making an image.
- That WebPositive is the name of the browser, although it’s currently hanging on my machine, HaikuDepot is the name of the repo manager, and I have installed Otter, and will look for Gnome Web
- A video commentary by OTB, from which I have copied this article’s featured image.
- How to install a custom icon into Virtual Box
- On May 2nd 2025, I found, upgrading from r1 beta4 which documents the
pkgmancommands to reset the repo links.
Now I need to see if we can make shared folders work, the screen is tiny and it seems unstable.
When asking how much RAM is required, I found Virtualizing virtualbox on the Haiku site.
On medium, a pointer to the top level haiku.org pages.
Ask I tidied up my vbox workspace I had another look at this. I have increased the screen size via the haiku control panel, I changed the network adapter to bridged. Neither the Software Updater or haiku depot can connect to their repository and the downloads fail. Haiku community suggest that this may be a versioning problem has the number of repos they support is restricted. I did a quick search on Google to see if haiku supported RDP; it seems not although VNC is recommended, however I would prefer to remove VNC from my clients and I really only want it in the hope that it will enable full screen access on the laptop with windows window control. I added the haiku community link about using VirtualBox, but this remains a toy to me. (It’s too hard to make work, take me back ro debates within the Sun Microsystems about Linux’s competitive advantage being ease of install.
And two days later I find, upgrading from r1 beta4 which documents the pkgman commands to reset the repo links.