linux VMware w W98 SE in vm

[Gregory Pleau]

VMWare emulates it's own BIOS - sometimes you gotta turn on CD booting in
there too, -and- capture the CD device in the VM settings. 

Anyhow, I've not had any problems with VMWare 3 and 4 / Win98 on Redhat 7.2
all the way to Fedora Core 1. All Intel boxes. On another note - Microsoft
Virtual PC runs Linux pretty well too ( Debian, Fedora, Mandrake are the
ones I've tried ). Only thing missing is an accelerated X driver :(

Only time I gave VMWare gas was when I read that 2.6 kernel info a few
months back and tried that.... didn't go quite as smooth.

- Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug at ss.org] On Behalf Of Jason
> Shein
> Sent: January 10, 2004 8:07 PM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: linux VMware w W98 SE in vm
> 
> vmware 4.02 5592
> 
> XP pro
> Windows 2003 web edition
> win 98 se
> 2000 pro
> 
> all installed and working with no problems.
> 
> SuSE 9.0 pro
> Athlon 2800 Barton
> 
> I didnt have to do anything special to install 98
> 
> 
> Chris Aitken wrote:
> > Has anyone successfully installed VMware and loaded Windows 98 SE as
> > guest OS in a vm?
> >
> > I managed to install VMware 4.0.5. Build 6030. But I'm having trouble
> > installing W98 SE into a vm. I tried a different CD - same problem.
> > Tried W95 OSR 2 - another problem. Trying to load W98 SE I get an
> > internal monitor error. Trying to install W96 OSR 2, I get that famous
> > error that informs theat Winfdows needs at least 7 MB to install : )
> >
> > Also, interestingly enough the installation seems to want the Windows 98
> >
> > Startup floppy, even though the CD is bootable - that's a head
> > scratcher.

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