Submitted by Back in September 2011, the Haiku project sponsored a Google Summer of Code student (Mike Smith) to develop guest additions for VirtualBox. The project was a success and was submitted to the VirtualBox project. The unofficial Haiku Google+ group just reported a Mailing List post by an Oracle engineer mentioning a “Haiku Port”: “The biggest pending change [the Haiku port] is waiting for build tools integration, and this is simply time consuming. The quality of this contribution is very high.” Lets hope this may be a sign that VirtualBox may officially run *under* Haiku at some point. On the other hand, this could just mean a “Haiku Port” of the VirtualBox guest additions. Judge for yourself.
I really hope so. I mean VBox’s interface is Qt-based, right?
I like Haiku and all, but the install base is extremely small compared to say FreeBSD, and yet FreeBSD doesn’t have an “official” VirtualBox release. Ummm…
Maybe they were talking about the Guest Additions only.
Edited 2012-03-02 09:48 UTC
Whether it’s an actual port or the guest additions – I’ll take it either way!
I don’t like using VirtualBox, since the Linux drivers for hardware virt are buggy crap, but it’d be great to use Haiku as a Host OS.
It’s the Guest Additions. There have been several threads in the vbox-development mailing list since ~1 year ago.
Still good news, particularly since most people will be introduced to Haiku through a VM such as VirtualBox and offering a better experience through the added guest addition functionality can only be a good thing.
Also huge thanks to the summer-of-code student Mike Smith for his great work on making these guest addons.