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BEos under a virtual machine
Name: Joe Date: January 3, 2002 at 15:01:47 Pacific
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Anybody ever get BEos R5 running on either Vmware or Connectix Virtual PC. I tried the personal version on Virtual PC but it didn't work. all the icons "lit" up and the screen went grey, Thats it. the Virtual machine was running Windows 98se. Anyone get the pro version running?
Name: M.I.K.e Date: January 9, 2002 at 23:13:30 Pacific
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The hardware emulated by those virtual machines doesn't really agree with BeOS. Even if you'd get it running you'd only have very slow gray-scale, since the virtual machines simulate graphics chips unsupported by BeOS and they don't seem to have a decent VESA 2.0 emulation as that simply crashes, from what I've read. Basically forget it... Or tell VMware and Connectix that you'd like to see BeOS supported.
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Response Number 2
Name: Chap Date: February 4, 2002 at 19:06:24 Pacific
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Or try running it under bochs
bochs can run linux under windows windows under linux qnx under linux / windows ect... the list goes on :) I than you can get bochs for almost any system
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Response Number 3
Name: Jason Date: March 25, 2002 at 11:32:03 Pacific
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If you can get BeOS working under Bochs, let me know how you did it!
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