On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > hi all ! > > Why are so many guest OSes are not working? > such as RedHat Linux 7/9/FC1 and Win98, Xandros 3 and Solaris 10 fails > also. > > working guest OSes: > SUSE Linux 10.0/10.2 and Win 2000/XP (with DOS somewhere in the middle > between working and non-working, it boots but has a lot of problems) > > Why is this ? > > That is - are most bugs in the BIOS or the CPU ring-0 emulation or where ? > > Also why IBM OS/2 requires VT ? > Will Vanderpool make all those other guest OSes magically work ? > > VirtualPC and VMware are capable of running a lot of OSes why? > > ... and I'm going to fill bug reports against VirtualBox, until I will > be able to run any x86 OS I have. (ok, I don't expect integration for > every OS in existence, but every x86 OS in existence should work (at > least in minimalistic mode, detecting mouse, keyboard, video, and hard > disk) - neither VirtualPC nor VMware achieved that, but there are much > closer to this ultimate target)
BTW Win98 works, just is not fully supported by the guest=additions infrastructure. I think this is the problem. These make vbox run nicely and these as guest-OS specific in most cases, QEMU or VMware will run most anything because they do not depend upon such an infrastructure. Xen requires specially built guest kernels. Openvz depends upon specially patched host kernel (and only runs linux guests). _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
