From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Jan 20 3:39:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D92237B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 03:39:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from quack.kfu.com (adsl-67-113-12-90.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.113.12.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6725243EB2 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 03:39:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@kfu.com) Received: from morpheus.kfu.com (morpheus.kfu.com [IPv6:3ffe:1200:301b:1:2d0:b7ff:fe3f:bdd0]) by quack.kfu.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0KBdDfH003297 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Mon, 20 Jan 2003 03:39:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@kfu.com) Received: from kfu.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by morpheus.kfu.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0KBd8Lp006751; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 03:39:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@kfu.com) Message-ID: <3E2BDFDB.4010201@kfu.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 03:39:07 -0800 From: Nick Sayer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021024 X-Accept-Language: en, en-US, en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware and turbotax References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.2 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_05_08, TO_BE_REMOVED_REPLY,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA, X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.41 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org So far so good for me. My guest is running win2k, maybe that's the magic. I do note, however, that it refused to run on my mac under VirtualPC, so it would appear that some portion of it is sensitive to emulated environments. Julian Elischer wrote: > I have vmware working on my current box and windows 98 (that I got with > this laptop) runs fine, but turbotax doesn't run. It seems to work > onthe native hardware. (dammit I have to boot windows). Does anyone have > any ideas about what they might be trying to do that can tell the > difference? > > p.s. vmware2 ports seems to work fine except that > you need to add includes to filedesc.h to two files. > to make it compile, and you need to make sure that there > is no vmnet1 in /compat/linux/dev. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message