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From: Bela Lubkin <filbo@armory.com>
Subject: Re: OSR6 and VMware
Date: 16 Jul 2005 06:59:36 -0400
Message-ID: <200507160359.aa00563@deepthought.armory.com> 
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Tony Lawrence wrote:

> Bela Lubkin wrote:
> 
> > So, I booted up the best sample I have available to me -- an OSR6 BL5.1
> > image under VMWare ;-}
> 
> Nice to see that OSR6 can run under VMware..  any issues making that happen?

This is an image I installed most of a year ago, so my memory is a
little washed out, plus it doesn't really represent the final OSR6
product.  Also, this is under VMWare 4.5.2 (VMWare 5 is current).

I remember one issue of note.  VMWare 4.5.2 can provide emulated IDE and
SCSI disks.  For SCSI it offers two different emulated HBAs: an old
BusTek/BusLogic model and a much newer LSI.  (Again, this is from a
while ago; I might have the specific HBAs wrong, and I might even be
mixing information relative to MS Virtual PC...)  Anyway, the
interaction of OSR6 (or indeed UW713) with the emulated newer(LSI?) HBA
is fatal.  It crashes VMWare (4.5.2).

The easy workaround is to use IDE emulation.

A second potential issue: VMWare provides native graphics drivers for
some OSes, to allow them to display useful graphics in the emulation
environment.  It does not provide such drivers for either OSR5, OSR6 or
UW7.  According to VMWare documentation, OSes for which they do not
provide such drivers are limited to 640x480 graphics.

I found this to be untrue with OSR5.  I configured it with the "vesa"
graphics driver; the driver gave me a long list of modes to choose from;
I chose one that would fill most of the real screen I was looking at;
and it was perfectly happy.

The same may or may not be true with OSR6.  I simply haven't tried it.
My OSR6-under-VMWare currently boots up with a cramped 640x480 graphical
login; I just flip to a text multiscreen and proceed.

>Bela<
 

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