From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Nov 27 12:38:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from melete.ch.intel.com (melete.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0995937B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:38:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by melete.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.33 2000/11/21 19:27:27 smothers Exp $) with ESMTP id UAA26876; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:41:51 GMT Received: from arc083.ch.intel.com (arc083.ch.intel.com [143.182.202.33]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.10 2000/02/10 21:38:16 steved Exp $) with ESMTP id NAA13477; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:37:54 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by arc083.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id NAA26551; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:37:52 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: arc083.ch.intel.com: jreynold set sender to jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com using -f From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14882.50720.46600.575175@arc083.ch.intel.com> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:37:52 -0700 (MST) To: Peter Hornby Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vmware2 on 4.1-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20001127161355.009d1900@solo.ned.dem.csiro.au> References: <20001126180819.D19849@tmp.com.br> <4.2.0.58.20001127161355.009d1900@solo.ned.dem.csiro.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.6.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ On Monday, November 27, Peter Hornby wrote: ] > > booting native and a vm-machine from the same partition though. You may > think that by setting two windows configurations that you will deal with > the different hardware configurations seen by windows. If you think this > will work, you don't know M$ 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