Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

Dmitriy Budko dbudko at vmware.com
Mon Mar 7 17:22:00 CET 2005


> From: Ronald G. Minnich
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Dmitriy Budko wrote:
> 
> > Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?
> > If you want it please describe why do you want it.
> 
> it would sure make it easier to do full-up sims of linuxbios-equipped 
> systems.

So, you don't need it for "production" systems, only for development, 
do you?

How difficult is it to port Intel 440BX chipset support from
V1 to V2?

It seems to me that supporting a new SIO chips (the emulated 
NS PC97338/PC87338) should be easy.


Dmitriy Budko, VMware



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