[plug] Testing CD-ROMs under VMWare

[Adam Davin]

On the topic of bochs, I tried using it when I was looking for an emulator
other than VMware, and found it hellishly slow (took something like 3 days
to install windows 95 - seriously !! ) this was using a 200mmx somewhere
back around september / october I think. I don't know if it was maybe a
configuration thing or something else.

If you have any greater success I'd be interested to know.

Adam Davin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernard [mailto:bernard at blackham.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, 11 February 2002 10:20 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Testing CD-ROMs under VMWare
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:06:42PM +0800, Craig Foster wrote:
> > 1) Does the provider of the ISO images provide an MD5SUM for the image?
>
> I am the provider of the ISO image :)
> Sorry I should've mentioned, I'm creating the images - fiddling with
> different ways of making my own universal rescue disk.
>
> > 2) is this under linux or (tsk) winDOS, as under windows, you can use
> > daemontools - which will mount an ISO as a drive, and VMWare
> for Win works
> > that way.
>
> Tis under linux. I've tried making a loopback device, but VMWare
> whinges about it not being a real cd-rom device.
>
> > PS Before you flame for me mentioning windows, even my Win
> machine loads a
> > VMware of Linux for testing purposes...
>
> My ultimate dream - MacOS running Virtual PC with Windows, running
> VMWare with intel linux... Purely for fun, when I can afford it ($$$
> and CPU wise :)
>
> Back on topic - a friend of mine just suggested I try bochs which is
> an "Open Source IA-32 (x86) Emulator" - not quite as good as VMware
> yet, but is free and will boot ISO images. Problem solvered, though
> if anybody has ideas about VMWare I'm still searching. If anybody is
> interested in bochs - bochs.sourceforge.net.
>
> Thanks for your quick response Craig!
>
> Rgds,
>
> Bernard.
>
> PS. I recently found this out and thought it was quite cool - sf.net
> is an alias for everything at sourceforge.net. So much shorter to
> type! (eg bochs.sf.net instead of bochs.sourceforge.net) CooL!
>
>
> --
>  Bernard Blackham
>  bernard at blackham.com.au
>