I've always wanted to try BeOS, but by the time I actually got arount to buying the software the hardware it runs on was obsolete. Question: will I be able to run BeOS as a guest OS? (I know that Parallels doesn't name it on the official list of guest OS's.)
I was thinking about the same. I have 5.03 somewhere but did not have time to try it yet. I will try sometimes soon and report. I will try also the Haiku OS (open source BeOS) as well
Please do. I'd really like to know what the speed of BeOS is like under Parallels. Originally it was much, much, much faster than Windows so I got my hopes up
I have tried the Pro and Max edition and whilst they both show the BeOS bootup sequence it fails very quickly after that.. H
Ahhh, that's a shame. Still, I think it must be possible to get it running somehow. Anyway, Karl from Haikubounties.org got Haiku running under parallels. See: http://www.iscomputeron.com/ and http://haikubounties.org/. Maybe his experiences will help you out.
BeOS / ZETA is not supported I guess that problem is related to that Parallels Workstation doesn't have support for CDs which have two different filesystems on them, and that is the case with both BeOS and ZETA. I guess this might be what Parallels has planned for v3.0+: For the moment BeOS is not supported as guest OS (wich doesn't mean it surely can't boot, but means that it was not in testing plan, etc.) Full support for BeOS is in our long-term plan for versions 3.0+ of our virtualization engine.
it's too bad... I've installed Zeta in Vmware and it runs, then converted the image to run in Qemu (see screenshot). The image will load in Parallels, and it seems to boot by disabling vt-x support, enabling boot in standard VGA, and enabling console debugging. It seems to 1st try to load a radeon driver, then the VESA driver, it spits out a lot of 'mangle PCI registers', then goes to a grey screen and your mouse appears. Wait... then the disk mounts and unmounts (does this several times), Deskbar starts. The clocks minutes go faster than seconds, and the mouse is erratic to control. It isn't useable at all. I tried installing the VESA driver from Haiku (because Haiku loads in Parallels) into Zeta, but that didn't help either. I've seen Zeta work in Vmware, Qemu, and Virtual PC, but not so well in Parallels
Hey... Just adding my name to the list of those asking for support of BeOS in the next revision of Parallels. Thanks and great work so far folks...
