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Date:      Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:32:49 -0700
From:      Sean Harding <sharding@gutenberg.uoregon.edu>
To:        Richard Brooksby <Richard.Brooksby@pobox.com>
Cc:        Sean Harding <sharding@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD under Virtual PC
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.4.00.9807241129540.17610-100000@gutenberg.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <l03130303b1de3d7e8a29@[208.208.142.213]>

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On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Richard Brooksby wrote:

> 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

Well, it works ok with OPENSTEP and Intel Rhapsody...And I've heard of
Linux working.

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

To be honest, I don't remember. I think I heard about third-hand that
someone had complained to FreeBSD people, who in-turn complained to
Connectix, who did a 1.x release claiming to have the fix for that as one
of the changes. Now I have 2.0 and it still doesn't work. Generally from
what I hear, Connectix is pretty interested in making sure that VPC is a
quality PC hardware emulator which will run pretty much anything. So, I
think they like to try to fix things like this. It's just that I have
LinuxPPC on my desktop machine, FreeBSD on a PC and my laptop would be too
slow for it to be fun anyway. So, I haven't pursued it much.

Sean

-- 
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http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~sharding/ | I feel alive."
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