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.
Regards, Carl-Daniel