Haiku-vm

August 27, 2026

Version updated for https://github.com/vmactions/haiku-vm to version v1.1.5.

This action is used across all versions by 65 repositories.

Action Type

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Action Summary

This GitHub Action automates running CI tests on Haiku, a lightweight Unix-like operating system. It supports different releases and architectures, including x86_64 and riscv64. The action uses AnyVM to build images of Haiku for these environments and automatically generates a GitHub Actions workflow based on user input. Users can specify environment variables and commands to run in the VM.

What’s Changed

Haiku R1/beta6, and three more sync methods

The default guest release is now R1/beta6. A workflow that does not set a release input gets it from this version on.

Folder sync grows from two backends to five

R1/beta6 offers rsync, scp, nfs, sshfs and tar. Before this, only
rsync and scp were available. Choose one with

    sync: "nfs"

All five pass in this action's own CI against a beta6 guest, along
with the cache-after-prepare and custom-shell paths.

Why beta6 matters beyond the version number

On R1/beta5, installing packages from inside the VM had stopped
working. Upstream retired the HaikuPorts branch repository for
that release -- its package index answers with an empty 2-byte
file -- so pkgman had nothing to resolve against. The beta5 image
kept working only because the builder baked its packages in from a
pinned snapshot, and that covered just what the builder installed,
not what a workflow asks for.

On R1/beta6 the repository is live again, a 2.4 MB index, and the
image is built the ordinary way with no pinned packages anywhere.
A prepare step can run pkgman install again.

R1/beta5 is still selectable

    release: "r1beta5"

It is unchanged -- rsync and scp only, from haiku-builder v2.0.2 --
and it is no longer part of this action's test matrix.

Under the hood

The beta6 image comes from haiku-builder v2.0.3, and the runtime
moves to anyvm v0.6.6.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vmactions/haiku-vm/compare/v1.1.4...v1.1.5