> -----Original Message----- > From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 3:59 PM > To: Myles Watson > Cc: 'Coreboot' > Subject: Re: [coreboot] VMware reality check > > On 22.02.2008 18:27, Myles Watson wrote: > > I decided to look into using VMware for coreboot development, but even > > though we support the same chipset (i440bx), since VMware doesn't > emulate > > the CPU you can end up with an Opteron on i440bx, or a laptop processor > with > > i440bx, etc. > > > > Has anyone run into this? Is there a reasonable way to make this work? > Do > > you really have to configure coreboot for VMware based on which CPU the > host > > has? > > > > I'd say stop the project before you get too frustrated. It simply > doesn't make sense. Basically, any combination of incompatible CPU and > chipset makes testing useless/impossible, so having the host CPU appear > with identical/similar characteristics in the virtual machine makes the > virtualization solution a no-go. You could try VirtualBox and VirtualPC, > but I believe they both have similar problems.
That's probably the right solution. I was just surprised that that was the case, because it seems like VMware would have similar troubles with their own BIOS. I expected to see the virtual processor as something other than mine. Myles > Regards, > Carl-Daniel > > -- > http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
