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from: `Daniela Engert`
date: 2006-03-25 02:46:40
subject: Re: [OS2HW] IDE drivers within VMWare

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:39:49 +1100, Ed Durrant wrote:

>I'm still trying to get eCS 2.0 to run within VMWare Server (the now 
>free product from VMWare)- otherwise known as VMWare GSX 3.0.
>
>The problem with VMWare when compared to other products like Virtual PC, 
>SVista, Parrallels or QEMU is that it doesn't do a good job with the 
>hardware it emulates.
>
>It seems to me that it has particular problems around emulating hard 
>disks as, although an eCS image with the latest DANIs drivers works 
>without problems on all of the other virtualisation products, the eCS 
>install traps under VMWare either in the IDE driver (be it Dani or IBM 
>standard) or the kernel !

That might be related to calls into the BIOS. Try preventing that.

Ciao,
  Dani




 
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