[openbeos] Re: [OT] Installing BeOS in vmware

"Scott MacMaster" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I tried this a while ago.  I believe I used vmware 5.  It booted 
> fine.  I 
> had a few problems though.  It didn't support something with 
> graphics.  So 
> it used a low resolution grey scale video (very slow).  The was 
> someone 
> wrong with the emulated system timer (my best guess for what was 
> wrong).  I 
> had setup my e-mail to be retried every half hour or something like 
> that. 
> Under vmware, it retrieved my mail every 5 seconds.  I never did 
> anything 
> else with it.  It was too slow to be useable.  However, a newer 
> version of 
> vmware or maybe virtual pc may give you better results.

François Revolt has a patch vor vmware that gives you correct timing. 
The recently published P4 timing driver for R5 should also help with 
emulators.

Bye,
   Axel.

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