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Re: FYI: vmware + oskit
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Jay Lepreau wrote:
> > I was just playing around with booting oskit kernels under VMWare, and
> > they seem to work fine.
>
> Cool; very neat! Looks like both sides must have done a good job.
>
> Yes, VMware is supposed to be very handy. I didn't know until now
> that it worked for general experimental OS code, though,
> but it makes sense that it does.
Yeah, by virtualizing the hardware features that Linux, DOS, and NT expect
to see they probably get pretty good coverage. For example, I know
someone who develops OpenBSD kernels under VMware - he says it mostly
works even though it's not supported.
> Are you running the
> base-Linux or base-NT version?
My machine is running NT; I'm compiling oskit kernels under Linux in one
VM, and booting the kernels in another VM.
John
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