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From: Bela Lubkin <belal@caldera.com>
Subject: Re: OpenServer on VMWare Workstation ???
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:30:15 GMT
References: <a1ehtp$i6o$01$1@news.t-online.com> <a1jm1p$o54$02$1@news.t-online.com> 

Heinz Tenschel wrote:

> > Is it possible to install OpenServer 5.0.x on VMWare Workstation??
> 
> Has anybody managed to install OSR5.0.x on a VMWare Workstation/Virtual PC
> ??
> I tried several VMWare configurations but can't get SCO to install.

Some years ago, when VMWare first came out, their online docs showed
that none of SCO's operating systems worked inside their emulation box.
I made several attempts to contact them to offer help in fixing this,
and got stony silence.

It is quite possible that it _can_ be installed and used.  I doubt there
are huge fundamental problems.  It's probably more a matter of slight
incompatibilities between the emulated hardware face they show and
certain drivers in the OpenServer kernel.

If you can describe exactly _how_ and _where_ it fails, we might be able
to get past the humps.

>Bela<

PS: don't install "5.0.x", a nonexistent version.  Use a specific
version; specifically, 5.0.6.
 

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