From owner-freebsd-platforms Wed Oct 15 16:48:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA19005 for platforms-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 16:48:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-platforms) Received: from sequoia.lituus.fr (ppp85.hol.fr [195.154.2.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA18985 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 16:48:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@sequoia.lituus.fr) Received: from sequoia.lituus.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sequoia.lituus.fr (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA00560 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 23:22:26 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199710152122.XAA00560@sequoia.lituus.fr> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 23:22:24 +0200 (CEST) From: stephane@lituus.fr Reply-To: stephane@lituus.fr Subject: Re: FreeBSD for VirtualPC? (on the PowerMac) To: freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199710151334.XAA00681@word.smith.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 15 Oct , Mike Smith wrote: >> >> Secondly, I was wondering if FreeBSD will work under VirtualPC. >> I remember someone trying it and finding a bug in the VirtualPC >> emulation. VirtualPC was recently updated, and I was wondering >> if anyone had tried FreeBSD after that update. (the release notes >> for the VirtualPC upgrade have nothing that suggests this bug was >> fixed, but that may be just because they don't claim to officially >> support FreeBSD at the moment). > > Yes, it works just fine. The bug was identified and fixed by Connectix > about a day after it was identified. > > If you are interested in a PC emulator for the Mac, this one looks > pretty hot. > Did you have personnally try FreeBSD on VirtualPC ? And, if yes, had you try some benchmarks, try XFree86, try some SCSI devices... ? I would like to know if you can completely forget that you are not on a real PC :) -- ** Je recherche un emploi dans le domaine de l'informatique ** Pour consulter mon CV -> http://www.lituus.fr/stephane/ // // Do you want a real, free OS : go to http://www.freebsd.org/ // And stop using Micro$oft softwares NOW !