Haiku (BeOS) in Parallels 3

salvomic · Jun 20, 2007

Hi all,
I wrote some old posts in this forum about BeOS, Haiku, Zeta...
I downloaded an image for Haiku from http://haiku-os.org/build_factory, then I made a VM with Parallels 3 (as "windows" "other windows") and I choose for it the haiku.hdd image, Parallels 3 has converted it.
I cannot resize the image - as they say some tips in this forum - because now there is more "Image tool", and perhaps the problem is just this one.
However, Haiku start, I can see the logo, but soon it print theese lines:
"PANIC: could not mount boot device!
Welcome to Kernel Debugging Land...
Runing on CPU 0
kdebug >"
So, Haiku (BeOS) doesn't run on Parallels 3?

Thanks in advance!

Salvo

jdlyall · Jul 11, 2007

BeOs in Parallels

I tried installing my BeOS 5 commercial version in Parallels 2. No go.
Sorry to hear that it doesn't work in the new version.
My order for an upgrade is awaiting shipment.

salvomic · Jul 12, 2007

jdlyall said:
I tried installing my BeOS 5 commercial version in Parallels 2. No go.
Sorry to hear that it doesn't work in the new version.
My order for an upgrade is awaiting shipment.

We need to have again "Image Resize", almost to have Haiku running. I hope the Parallels Team would put this utility again in Parallels 3.x, and soon

Thanks in advance!

Salvo

Relan · Jul 16, 2007

salvomic said:
We need to have again "Image Resize"

In fact we don't.

Run Terminal, cd into directory where you've downloaded Haiku image and type the following commands:

Code:

bunzip2 haiku.image.bz2
dd if=/dev/zero of=haiku.image bs=1024 count=1 conv=notrunc seek=204800
mv haiku.image haiku.hdd

Then create a VM in Parallels, select type Other, disable network adapter (!) in VM options and set HDD image to that with Haiku. That's all. I hope this hint will be useful.

mkstevo · Jul 16, 2007

I can confirm that this does work . I have managed to get Haiku to run in V2 Parallels using the above instructions . Many thanks to Relan . ( Why no networking ? )

Relan · Jul 17, 2007

mkstevo, I'm glad to hear that it works. What about network, Haiku just hangs when I enable it. I don't know the reason as I did not perform any additional investigation.

salvomic · Jul 17, 2007

Relan said:
In fact we don't. Run Terminal...

Then create a VM in Parallels, select type Other, disable network adapter (!) in VM options and set HDD image to that with Haiku. That's all. I hope this hint will be useful.

yes, thanks: it works!!!

Why no network? There is any workaround to enable also this one?

Thanks again and best regards!

Salvo

Relan · Jul 17, 2007

salvomic said:
There is any workaround to enable also this one?

Unfortunately I don't know any. Network does not work for me, but can work for you as you can have another network configuration, etc.

salvomic · Jul 17, 2007

Relan said:
Unfortunately I don't know any. Network does not work for me, but can work for you as you can have another network configuration, etc.

ok.
In my MacBook I had to disable it from Parallels before to start Haiku. No luck to use it, still...

Thanks
Salvo

salvomic · Apr 10, 2008

Relan said:
In fact we don't. Run Terminal, cd into directory where you've downloaded Haiku image and type the following commands:

Code:

bunzip2 haiku.image.bz2 dd if=/dev/zero of=haiku.image bs=1024 count=1 conv=notrunc seek=204800 mv haiku.image haiku.hdd

Then create a VM in Parallels, select type Other, disable network adapter (!) in VM options and set HDD image to that with Haiku. That's all. I hope this hint will be useful.
...

ok, an year ago that worked well, but now I tried to create another VM, to convert a Haiku image, but now Parallels want to convert the hdd, and if I convert it I get again the kernel panic in Haiku...

Please, is the above resizing method still valid or Parallels 3 at the actual version doesn't permit it more?

Let me know, please

Salvo

salvomic · Apr 12, 2008

I found that the actual "nightly" Haiku images are 250 MB, so I made in Terminal:
bunzip2 haiku.image.bz2
dd if=/dev/zero of=haiku.image bs=1024 count=1 conv=notrunc seek=408600
mv haiku.image haiku.hdd
And it works!

Time ago, if I'm not wrong, the images were 120 MB...

And then, what is the rule for the "seek" option? (I have only doubled the previous value: 204800...)

Relan · Apr 14, 2008

salvomic said:
And then, what is the rule for the "seek" option? (I have only doubled the previous value: 204800...)

"seek" is offset from the beginning of the file. At this offset dd writes 1KB of zeros increasing image size to 400MB. See man dd for details. So you've made everything right.

salvomic · Apr 14, 2008

Relan said:
"seek" is offset from the beginning of the file. At this offset dd writes 1KB of zeros increasing image size to 400MB. See man dd for details. So you've made everything right.

ok, thanks Relan!

have a nice day

emrainey · Sep 19, 2008

With latest Parallels (5608)

I tried to get this to work but Haiku does not yet work with build 5608 of Parallels for Mac. I downloaded a nightly build of Haiku and did the resize trick, then converted to the new format, which caused the boot to just sit there after showing part of the boot up screen. However, as a side note, the raw Image format of the nightly build works just fine with QEMU for Mac (which isn't as nice Parallels but functional). I'll keep playing around with the Haiku image size to see if I can get it to work.