Overview of Vitruvian OS 0.3 on QEMU

As we have posted earlier about the team behind Vitruvian OS announcing version 0.3 to the public for the first time, this project is not yet another Linux distribution. It’s a Linux-based operating system with BeOS components on top, with the Nexus module to allow BeOS applications to run on top of Linux for maximum compatibility.

If you have been our long time reader, you might have noticed that we’ve tested BeOS on our old computer and shown you how it performs there, and the performance out there was very impressive.

So, we have downloaded the first public release of Vitruvian OS from here:

Download Vitruvian OS

Version 0.3 is just 600 MB in size, which means that it can fit on a CD-ROM, without having to resort to bigger drives like DVD-ROM. Now, after we’ve downloaded the ISO file, we can begin running it.

Assuming that you’ve downloaded QEMU, you can run the following command:

qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom /path/to/vitruvian-0.3.0-live.iso -m 768M -vga std

For example, on a Windows system (assuming that QEMU is in PATH), you can run the following command:

qemu-system-x86_64.exe -cdrom C:\path\to\vitruvian-0.3.0-live.iso -m 768M -vga std -accel whpx

After that, Vitruvian OS is booting up like this:

After a few seconds of waiting, the Vitruvian OS desktop has appeared.

However, it looks like that icons are not loading in many areas, such as desktop icons. Applications, however, work fine with almost no problems, except for Pairs, which reported that it needed icons but got none. The Clock app also seems to suffer from broken rendering due to the hands being duplicated.

The terminal is working fine, which is good.

On shutdown, some of the applications just don’t want to quit, even if all windows have been closed, so VitruvianOS 0.3 hangs on shut down when you open some of the programs, such as Pairs and Terminal.

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