The Haiku project itself is not a formal entity, and as a result it cannot accept donations directly. There are however various way to donate, either to an organization or directly to some developers.
Haiku, Inc. Haiku, Inc. is an US-based non-profit organization which handles donations to the Haiku project. They fund the infrastructure (servers, hosting), communication (stickers, flyers) as well as travel and hosting costs for people representing Haiku at open source conferences (FOSDEM, RMLL, .
Virtual instances of operating systems are perfect for all kinds of testing purposes that need to be done in a safe and isolated environment. Installing Haiku in a virtual machine is a solution for people who do not want to install it on their physical computers, but wish to become familiar with it.
This guide will describe the process of running Haiku on a virtual machine (VM) using Veertu Desktop.
For information about Haiku's participation in GSoC this year, please see this page.
Qualifying students can apply for a Haiku project (see the list of suggested projects below). For details about how to apply, please check out Students: How to Apply for a Haiku Idea.
The most successful Google Summer of Code projects are often those proposed by the students themselves. The following list represents some of our ideas and wishes for the project.
The root Haiku disk image (raw variant) can be booted remotely over the local network as of recent versions. This is especially useful when an architectures boot and kernel issues need to be troubleshot.
In the example below we will cover remote booting Haiku on various architectures. At the moment this is mostly geared toward developers.
Requirements:
Haiku source code and build environment Linux build tools Enough memory on the test system.
Hardware Serial Debugging Hardware Your system needs to have a built-in serial port to leverage Serial Debugging. Modern laptops commonly lack this port. Desktops will generally have a serial port or a mainboard header for serial port. Hardware Required A problematic system with an available built-in serial port. A main board header (if required for problematic system) A second system to capture logs and interact with the system under test.
For information about Haiku's participation in GSoC this year, please see this page.
Qualifying students can apply for a Haiku project (see the list of suggested projects below). For details about how to apply, please check out Students: How to Apply for a Haiku Idea.
According to other mentor organizations, the most successful Google Summer of Code projects are often those proposed by the students themselves. The following list represents some of our ideas and wishes for the project.
Here's a list of sites providing 3rd party software for Haiku. Some offer a direct download of HPKG packages or zip archives, others have a repository which you can add to Haiku with the "Repositories" preference panel.
BeBytes - The BeOS Software Archive: A software archive like the old BeBits in BeOS times. BeSly Software Repo: A repository for Haiku software. Fat Elk Software: A repository Fat Elk's own and other 3rd party software.
For Google Code-In 2019, Thinker Pal created a video on how to install Haiku in VMware Fusion [24 MiB].
Start by downloading a Haiku ISO image, do select the closest mirror to enjoy higher transfer rates. Verify using the checksums to make sure that the downloaded files are not corrupted as they are big files. VMware Fusion is available for free.
Go to section: Installing and running Haiku from an ISO image Additional Steps Troubleshooting Installing and running Haiku from an ISO image This method is pretty much similar to installing on an actual machine.
For Google Code-In 2017, Villyam created a video on how to install Haiku in Parallels Desktop [10 MiB].
Virtual instances of operating systems are perfect for all kinds of testing purposes that need to be done in a safe and isolated environment. Installing Haiku in a virtual machine is a solution for people who do not want to install it on their physical computers, but wish to become familiar with it.
For Google Code-In 2017, Arnav Bhatt created a video on how to install Haiku in SimNow [8 MiB].
This article is aimed at developers, as AMD SimNow is both a Virtual machine and an AMD hardware emulator. If you just want to try Haiku out, you might want to use another VM that is more aimed at end users.
Go to section: Downloading Haiku Downloading AMD SimNow Installing AMD SimNow Preparing the Virtual Machine Running the Virtual Machine Downloading Haiku There are several methods offered to install Haiku.
