From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 24 06:48:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA09131 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 06:48:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from steffi.geodesic.com (steffi.geodesic.com [208.208.142.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA09120 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 06:48:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Richard.Brooksby@pobox.com) Received: from [208.208.142.213] ([208.208.142.213]) by steffi.geodesic.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA06446; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:46:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from Richard.Brooksby@pobox.com) X-Sender: rb@pop3.geodesic.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:32:49 -0500 To: Sean Harding From: Richard Brooksby Subject: Re: FreeBSD under Virtual PC Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean Harding wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Richard Brooksby wrote: > > > Has anyone succeeded in getting FreeBSD running under Connectix Virtual PC > > ? > > 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message