[haiku-development] Re: BeOS development environment
- From: "Joseph Liu" <froseph@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 01:13:09 -0800
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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!
>
>
IIRC I got BeOS running in VMware Sever 1 under linux, but I have
since moved on to using a dedicated box for it. VMware Server is
_much_ older than VMware Player 2. If you must use VMware Server-
probably for snapshots- try VMware Server 2 which is currently in
beta. I think debugging symbols are on so it'll probably be slower
than VMware Server 1 and since it's in beta YMMV. Nothing prevents you
from moving virtual machines between VMware products so it may be best
to try running your virtual machine on VMware Player 2 and if that
works then move to VMware Server 2 if/when you need it.
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