Re: VMware

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel Infinity-ltd com>]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Chris Barnes wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks to whoever recommended VMware (I think it was Mike, but the original 
> message has got lost in my inbox, sorry!).
> 
> I've downloaded the beta (2.0.3) of VMware, and I've installed Win98 under 
> it. It works (a bit slowly, but that's most probably due to my 
> partitionless install - I'm hoping to get a new hard disk for Linux and 
> reinstall it on its own partition soon). But it gives me a few 
> error/warning messages: firstly, it complains about DGA not being supported 
> and therefore accelerated mode cannot run (and I can't work out how to 
> enable it, so please help!), and more seriously, that the kernel version I 
> use (I'm not running Linux at the moment so I can't get the version number, 
> but it's whatever comes with RH7) will make data CD-ROMs appear as audio 
> CDs under Win9x guest OSes, and unreadable under WinNT/2000. Has anyone 
> else come across this problem, and is there any way of avoiding it besides 
> waiting for the stable release of the 2.4 kernel?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated...
> 
If you find the fix for reading CDs, let me know.  I have the same
problem, but I have not gotten around to finding the fix for it yet.
For me, it is with the 2.2.16 kernel on 6.2.

Mikkel
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