[openbeos] Re: Running BeOS 5 Pro under VmWare 2.0/3.0

> Does anyone have experience loading BeOS 5 and running it under
> VmWare?
Well, I tried a long time ago, but with an old VMWare and it didn't work

> 1 / I have Win2K running, tuned, and rock stable (sorry Other OS
> supporters).
Maybe it has some stability points... beware not to push it out of those :)

> 2 / I don't really like to multi-boot, prefering to just run FreeBSD and
> Linux
> under VmWare when needed.
I'd really do the oposite, running Linux under an inferior OS is just 

> 3 / None of the free OSes know how to natively interface with my LynkSys
> USB
> Wireless Adapter, and they can via VmWare. I can only assume that BeOS
> has the
> same problem. Please note that attempts to get Atmel to release specs to
> the
> AT76C502, the heart of the LynkSys adapter, without an NDA have been
> fruitless. So don't flame me about being too lazy to write a drive.
I won't I'm just sick of companies that want to keep their 'military' 
secrets... God, I have the internal plans for my ORIC Atmos, and for my 20 
years old TV... why are they so scared to release them nowadays ???

> 
> I know from looking at the VmWare site that BeOS is not officially
> supported,
> but I was wondering if anybody know of anybody out there who has had
> success.
What about Plex86 ?
Well, I think it only runs under Linux.

> VMware 3.0 beta will boot BeOS from a physical partition, but not from the
> CD or a virtual drive.
> It only boots in greyscale and it is sloowww. VMware 2.0 doesn't work at
> all.

I think I heard vmware has opened the specs for writing an accelerated 
driver... let me check...
http://www.vmware.com/download/downloadxserver.html
There is something like 'source-code patch', Woop dudu !!!

François.

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