-----Original Message----- From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [mailto:c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net] 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