From: snuhwolf@netscape.net   
      
   Andreas Kohlbach  pinched out a steaming pile   
   of<873a6lp181.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>:   
      
   > I downloaded haiku-alpha-gcc4.image and trying to run it in qemu.   
   It's   
   > sluggish (1.6 GHZ AMD64, supposed to be 2.6 in Pentium measurements   
   as   
   > far as I know) but just 1 GB RAM.   
   >   
   Wow, according to the haiku site that should be plenty of power.   
      
   > I run it on Ubuntu Linux. There is just Gnome running after a fresh   
   boot.   
   >   
   > I wasn't able to start it in Virtualbox (how?) to see if it would be   
   > faster.   
   >   
   > Cool would be to boot this image via grub. But as far as I check   
   Google   
   > results you can't,   
      
   Theres install instructions on the haiku site for using grub to boot it   
   from its own partition.   
      
    need to install it into a blank partition (or USB   
   > stick, may be another thing I'm going to try).   
   >   
      
   Give it its own partition...they say it needs 600MB to install so a 2gb   
   partition should be sufficient.   
      
      
   > Well in qemu it takes long to boot. Sometimes I have to do slow mouse   
   > clicks as it seems not to recognize quick clicks like on Linux or   
   > Windows. It also takes about 90 secs to load Bezilla. And most scary,   
   the   
   > clock starts running fast. After about 15 minutes it's about 1 minute   
   in   
   > the future and seems to accelerate, so after 30 minutes it's 3-4   
   minutes   
   > already.   
   >   
   > Any idea?   
      
   Its an alpha release :)   
      
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