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Date:      Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:32:49 -0500
From:      Richard Brooksby <Richard.Brooksby@pobox.com>
To:        Sean Harding <sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD under Virtual PC
Message-ID:  <l03130303b1de3d7e8a29@[208.208.142.213]>
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.SGI.4.00.9807230948200.13799-100000@gutenberg.uoregon.edu>
References:  <l03130301b1dcf2cb5be9@[208.208.142.213]>

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Sean Harding wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Richard Brooksby wrote:
>
> > Has anyone succeeded in getting FreeBSD running under Connectix Virtual PC
> > <URL: http://www.connectix.com/>?
>
> I've been trying to get this to work since 2.2.1 and VPC 1.0, and I have
> never had any luck. It always dies in the exact same place, just as you
> said (9%, I believe, but it's been a while). It's done that on every
> machine I have tried it on. I finally gave up.

I suspect that Virtual PC doesn't emulate the devices exactly enough.  They
probably only got them working well enough for the Windows drivers to work
correctly.  I guess I could get into driver debugging but I don't have the
time.

> Supposedly there was some fix in VPC for this exact problem, but it didn't
> seem to help me any.

What's your source for this information?  Are there people at Connectix who
are willing to discuss this kind of thing?



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