Re: Free VMware?
From: Andy Baxter (news3_at_earthsong.null.free-online.co.uk)
Date: 10/12/03
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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 07:40:22 +0100
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 02:07:23 +0000, Bob Hauck wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 23:20:41 +0100, Andy Baxter
> <news3@earthsong.null.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I've just been looking at bochs (bochs.sourceforge.net) It's a software
>> emulator for 386-compatibles, which runs on various platforms. It does
>> seem to work OK, and not too hard to set up, but it's terribly slow as far
>> as I can see so far, just from running the win98 setup program.
>
> FWIW Win98 seems to be some kind of worst-case for Bochs. NT4 is _much_
> faster, at least to install, which surprised me. But even so, Bochs is
> not a speedy program. It is cool to run NT on a Sparc, and it is good
> enough for what I've been using it for which is testing install scripts.
>
> I've just installed the eval version of VMware and it is _far_ faster
> than Bochs, seems to be close to native speed, but of course runs only
> on x86 and costs $299 after 30 days.
I'm trying to get network support working in bochs+win98. One problem is
if I start up bochs as an ordinary user, it says it doesn't have
permission to open the network device, but I don't know where the relevant
device file for a network card is so I can change the permissions, or even
if network interfaces are treated in this way. The listing of 'lsof -c
bochs | grep -v mem' is:
# lsof -c bochs | grep -v mem
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
bochs 996 root cwd DIR 3,4 4096 4202467 /home/andy/win98
bochs 996 root rtd DIR 3,5 4096 2 /
bochs 996 root txt REG 3,5 690668 1352514 /bin/bash
bochs 996 root 0u CHR 136,3 5 /dev/pts/3
bochs 996 root 1u CHR 136,3 5 /dev/pts/3
bochs 996 root 2u CHR 136,3 5 /dev/pts/3
bochs 996 root 3u CHR 5,0 1368320 /dev/tty
bochs 996 root 5u CHR 136,3 5 /dev/pts/3
bochs 996 root 7w FIFO 0,5 4611 pipe
bochs 996 root 255r REG 3,5 554 181005 /usr/bin/bochs
bochs-bin 998 root cwd DIR 3,4 4096 4202467 /home/andy/win98
bochs-bin 998 root rtd DIR 3,5 4096 2 /
bochs-bin 998 root txt REG 3,5 841992 181004 /usr/bin/bochs-bin
bochs-bin 998 root 0u CHR 136,3 5 /dev/pts/3
bochs-bin 998 root 1u CHR 136,3 5 /dev/pts/3
bochs-bin 998 root 2u CHR 136,3 5 /dev/pts/3
bochs-bin 998 root 3u CHR 5,0 1368320 /dev/tty
bochs-bin 998 root 4w REG 3,4 11200 4202469 /home/andy/win98/bochsout.txt
bochs-bin 998 root 5u CHR 136,3 5 /dev/pts/3
bochs-bin 998 root 6u unix 0xc4f636c0 4780 socket
bochs-bin 998 root 7w FIFO 0,5 4611 pipe
bochs-bin 998 root 8u REG 3,4 1572544512 1700691 /var/local/bochs/c.img
bochs-bin 998 root 9r REG 3,4 656199680 1766099 /var/local/isos/win98SE
bochs-bin 998 root 10w REG 3,4 0 4202470 /home/andy/win98/sb16.log
bochs-bin 998 root 11u sock 0,0 4785 can't identify protocol
The only candidates for network device files I can see in this are the
ones called 'socket' and 'can't identify protocol'.
andy
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