FreeLists / haiku-development / [haiku-development] Re: BeOS development environment

["Urias McCullough" <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/03/2008, Nathan Widmyer <lighthousej@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been lurking for a few weeks while I've been trying to setup a
> development environment to help out with the code where I can.
> The best option for me is to setup BeOS Max v4 within VMware.
>
>  However, I'm running into problems where it seems like I'm not running
> VMware video or mouse drivers.
> First, after a few minutes, the mouse sticks to the top-left corner, then
> the keyboard stops responding.
>  I saw the release notes have had vmware drivers for a while but I can't
> find them.

BeOS Max V4 comes with the VMware network and video drivers already -
the only thing you'll need is the vmw_mouse driver from bebits:

http://bebits.com/app/4296 (instructions to install are included)

VMWare Server 1.0.x causes this problem for me - but it doesn't happen
when I use VMWare Player 2.0.2. I think it's because VMWare Server
uses a funny protocol layer to interact with the VM and it isn't
nearly as responsive IMO.

Anyhow, I just got BeOS Max V4b1 working in VMWare Player 2.0.2
(windows) last night and it's running beautifully!