Today we posted on IsComputerOn that Karl vom Dorff, from Haiku Bounties, decided to go ahead and have a shot at booting Haiku, in OS X, via Parallels Workstation.There are basically only two things that you have to do to get Haiku running under Parallels:

  • Change the file extension from .image to .hdd
  • Resize the image with Parallels Image Tool

Haiku booted prefectly, and simply felt mighty fast under Parallels compared to Qemu. Haiku is still far from a finished operating system, and I guess that only developers would be interested trying it out. But as Andrea Anzani asked me to try it out, I simply had to try. My iMac Intel Core Duo is at work, but as I also have bought a license for Parallels Workstation for Windows/Linux, I gave it a shot:Haiku images are built on a daily basis and can be downloaded from here for those of you who want to try.