[openbeos] Re: [OT] Installing BeOS in vmware
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:18:04 +0200 CEST
"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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