Progress on running Haiku OS on VisionFive 2 RISC-V dev board

Amazing progress, especially for a single-person effort. X512&#x27;s posts (linked from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;X547&#x2F;Haiku-riscv">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;X547&#x2F;Haiku-riscv</a>) are well worth a read - can&#x27;t wait to give it a try. The sources to the VisionFive 2 port are not uploaded so far.<p>Haiku already runs great on the HiFive Unmatched board, the VisionFive 2 version now makes it possible to run Haiku on a RISC V machine which sells below $100 (+display, keyboard, mouse, case). I would expect that the effort to port the OS to the Pine64 Star64 board (which uses the same SoC as the VisionFive 2, the JH7110) is relatively small, so there&#x27;s another option to run Haiku soon.

As a BeOS main-driver from the mid-1990s, I absolutely adore this.<p>BeOS was just a dream to use back in 1997-1999. The performance was absolutely spectacular (by the end I was running it on a dual PIII-450MHz, a very rare high-end configuration at the time) and the vision of a multithreaded OS that targeted multiprocessor (SMP) systems with the slogan “One Processor Per User Is Not Enough!” was truly visionary.

There is also some discussion in the VisionFive2 forum @ RVSpace.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.rvspace.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;progress-on-running-haiku-on-visionfive-2&#x2F;2708" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.rvspace.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;progress-on-running-haiku-on-vis...</a>

BeOS had a feature where you could clone a whole install to a different drive, at that time it was amazing. Instead of backing up and restoring or adding a new mount point, you just cloned your whole OS to the new drive, rebooted, and bam.

Nice! I&#x27;m very pleased running my visionfive2 as a gateway to my home network. But that itch to make it so something interesting and not useful is starting again.<p>Maybe Haiku OS would be a good for a network bastion?