Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:37:52 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: Peter Hornby <p.hornby@ned.dem.csiro.au> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vmware2 on 4.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <14882.50720.46600.575175@arc083.ch.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20001127161355.009d1900@solo.ned.dem.csiro.au> References: <20001126180819.D19849@tmp.com.br> <4.2.0.58.20001127161355.009d1900@solo.ned.dem.csiro.au>
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[ On Monday, November 27, Peter Hornby wrote: ] > > booting native and a vm-machine from the same partition though. You may > think that by setting two windows configurations that you will deal with > the different hardware configurations seen by windows. If you think this > will work, you don't know M$ very well. Alternate hardware profiles may > indeed deal with the odd serial port, modem, or even an ethernet card going > missing, but if you think M$ ever contemplated dealing with the entire > BIOS, motherboard, graphics card etc. etc. etc. changing from one > configuration to another, then think again. I've spent hours trying to > tip-toe through this mine field.... auto-detecting hardware ad nauseam, > trying this that & the other order of hardware additions, vmware corrupting > registries.....and this is with a (real) chipset the same as the virtual > one (though the real machine is dual CPU). If anyone has a way around > this............. Just wanted to add my "me too" here. If you're going to run VMware especially with a win98 client, don't expect the "dual hardware profile" thing to work at all. You'll need to setup Win98 under a virtual disk. Period. -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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