Haiku R1/beta1 in Vagrant

Over the last year, I have been slowly pushing patches upstream to Vagrant introducing native Haiku support. Vagrant is an open-source tool to build and maintain portable virtual development environments. Essentially, Vagrant lets you deploy and rapidly customize a Haiku virtual machine with programmatic scripts.

Since we now have a new stable release, I have prepared some updated R1/beta1 images to play with under an official Haiku, Inc. account.

Requirements

• A linux, OS X, or Windows machine.
• VirtualBox installed and functional.
• Vagrant installed.

Starting Haiku under the VirtualBox provider

The example below starts up a x86_64 Haiku VM.

Change haiku-os/r1beta1-x86_64 to haiku-os/r1beta1-x86_gcc2h below for a 32-bit (BeOS ABI compatible) virtual machine..

• Create a new work directory and enter it
• mkdir haiku-r1beta1 && cd haiku-r1beta1
• Create a new file names “Vagrantfile” in this path.

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
	# For a complete reference, please see the online documentation at
	# https://docs.vagrantup.com.
	config.vm.box = "haiku-os/r1beta1-x86_64"
	config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true
	# Example running custom commands after startup
	#config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
	#  pkgman update
	#SHELL
end

• Run vagrant up to download startup and configure the local Haiku VM.
• Run vagrant ssh to bring up a text console within your new Haiku VM.
• Launch VirtualBox to see the VM and pull up a virtual screen.