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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 1997 23:22:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:      stephane@lituus.fr
To:        freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD for VirtualPC? (on the PowerMac) 
Message-ID:  <199710152122.XAA00560@sequoia.lituus.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199710151334.XAA00681@word.smith.net.au>

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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 :)

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