Haiku on Parallels 7

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pyr0

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I'd like to install Haiku on Parallels. Originally I wanted to install BeOS, but I think that's much more difficult, so I'm ok with Haiku. I found some instructions here in the forum and also in the forum on the Haiku website. But all these informations are a few years old and won't fit with the newest version of Parallels.

As far as I got: I've downloaded the anyboot file from the Haiku website (https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku), changed the name of the image to haiku.hdd, created a new virtual machine in Parallels, used the haiku.hdd as installation source, used Windows XP as OS and disabled the network adapter in the settings under Hardware > Network.

If I run the machine, Haiku get stuck in the middle of the boot process. The hints to resize the image or format the image file with the dd command in the Terminal and then set the image to the harddisc don't work. I get an error from Parallels that the image could not be identified or has the wrong format or something similar.

Has anyone experiences installing Haiku on Parallels? Thanks in advance...
 
Unfortunately it doesn't work in parallels 7 but I think it works on Parallales 8 but I'm not going to upgrade since I recently purchased the 7 version but can't apply for a free upgrade.
 
Finally I got Haiku run with Parallels 8. I found two important posts:

1. https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/virtualizing/parallels-desktop
2. https://www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/haiku_41_actually_works_parallels_7

I started with the first post and downloaded the actual Anyboot image on the Haiku website (step 1).

After that I used the three Terminal commands of the second post to convert the image to an hdd file.

Then I switched back to step 2 of the first post. I created a new virtual machine in Parallels from installation disc, continued without installation disc and selected as operation system more other > other. Then I stopped the virtual machine after the failed boot process. I opened the configuration panel and browsed in the hardware tab for the hdd file I created.

After that I could start the virtual machine! There is no need to disable the network adapter. Everything runs fine now!
 
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