[kumo.it] » emulation http://www.kumo.it Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:38:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Haiku under VMWare Fusion http://www.kumo.it/articles/2007/06/08/haikuapp-under-vmware-fusion/ http://www.kumo.it/articles/2007/06/08/haikuapp-under-vmware-fusion/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:16:25 +0000 kumo http://www.kumo.it/articles/2007/06/08/haikuapp-under-vmware-fusion/ Interesting times indeed as I am finally able to run Haiku at a decent speed under OSX (does that make it Haiku.app?). The network works too which is very useful if I am ever going to do anything with my projects.

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I have moved the BeOS open source survey to the “BeOS”:/beos page.

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]]> A couple of nights ago I decided that it was time to see if I could get BeOS to work on my iBook (it worked but it was very slow). The only way I could get it to work was with emulation. I found the information on various places on the Internet but I forgot to note down where I found it from so I am recreating it here (so that at least I don’t forget how it was done).

For now I am trying to use just the simple BeOS 5 Personal Edition.

  • Download the BeOS R5 Personal Edition for Linux from BeBits
  • Extract the file that you just downloaded and if you want to, place image.be and floppy.img somewhere
  • Install _qemu_ which is a PC emulator. I installed it from http://stegefin.free.fr/qemu/qemu.dmg as suggested on the Haiku Wiki

At this point, you should open up a Terminal window and cd to the location where image.be and floppy.img are. Both files are needed to get BeOS PE to run and so the following should be typed:

qemu -fda floppy.img -hda image.be -boot a -m 128 -user-net

-fda floppy.img
The floppy disk is _floppy.img_
-hda image.be
The hard disk is _image.be_
-boot a
Boot from drive a
-m 128
Provide 128 meg of memory
-user-net
Creates a private network (?)

After a while BeOS will be running in greyscale. Either I would have to enable the safe video mode everytime I booted BeOS or I would have to use one of the pieces of software on BeBits to force the video mode. I couldn’t get the network to work so I was stuck with the problem of how to transfer files to BeOS. I tried to make a dmg but it didn’t work so in the end I made a CD image using the following command:

hdiutil makehybrid -o stuff_for_beos.iso -iso DIRECTORY

At that point the CD image can be passed to qemu by adding -cdrom ISONAME to the qemu command:

qemu -fda floppy.img -hda image.be -cdrom stuff_for_beos.iso -boot a -m 128 -user-net

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