fc3 on VirtualPC2004?

David Sanders fedoradev at sandersweb.net
Wed Nov 17 22:09:59 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 17 November 2004 9:30 am, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 04:02:29PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138744
> > According to this guy it is the 4G/4G split that virtualPC is unable to
> > support.  Unfortunately this is not our responsibility, and only
> > Microsoft can fix this.  Good luck convincing them.
>
> I doubt they will. 4G/4G is essentially not emulatable on IA32 (ie
> legacy 32bit) PC systems. Well at least you can emulate it but it's so
> slow...
>
> Alan
Do we need a 4g4g kernel as the default?  Not many people are going to be 
helped anyway.  Fedora is the only linux distribution shipping one as far as 
I know and it is not in the upstream kernels.  Perhaps it could be an option?
-- 
David Sanders
fedoradev at sandersweb.net




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