linux VMware w W98 SE in vm

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:59:44PM -0500, Gregory Pleau wrote:
> 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.

4.1beta has better 2.6 kernel support.

Lennart Sorensen
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