Re: VMware

[Chris Barnes <chris w2s net>]

At 16:01 28/10/2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 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.

For all my searching, there doesn't seem to be a fix other than upgrading 
to a newer kernel. :o(

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