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.
Later, Scott MacMaster
Hi guys,
first of all execuse me for the OT but i wanted to (re)install BeOS (Dano) on my notebook when i found out that my "beloved" dvd drive was dead... =(
So i had an idea: "just use vmware! it works for bsd! give it: 1) the raw partition (/dev/foo) 2) the BeOS iso 3) the boot floppy run the insall phase through vmware and let it install the os in the real disk"
so far so good, but i hit a problem:
during bootphase, when it reaches the splash screen, it panics and brings me to kdl with a nice msg: "unable to mount /dev/disk/atapi/foo/bar/etc" So it seems vmware is unable to see my BeOS iso. Any idea? Should i switch to another virtual machine? Any successful stories from any of you?
Thanks a lot -- Paolo
Italian FreeBSD User Group: http://www.gufi.org
