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From: Bela Lubkin <belal@caldera.com>
Subject: Re: SCO OpenServer 5.0.2Dp (maybe others) running inside of vmWare 3.0 (1455)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:48:06 GMT
References: <d12f73d2.0203060246.286b0f17@posting.google.com> <20020306155814.E22877@mammoth.ca.caldera.com> <a66gmv$746$1@perki.connect.com.au> 

Stuart J. Browne wrote:

> You should be able to tell VMWare to make the CD-ROM drive a SCSI device,
> thus bypassing the need to use the wd drivers of SCO at all.  You might need
> to tell SCO not to probe however.... I'll have to try this . . .

Can you tell VMWare to present an IDE _hard disk_ as SCSI?  If so,
OpenServer should be fully usable under VMWare -- just tell it to
present all the IDE peripherals as SCSI.

> *turns to the system on his right, lost in thought*
> 
> I'll post back..

Please do.  If you have an all-IDE system that you can have VMWare
present as all-SCSI, that would be a good test.

Oh -- for it to be _fully_ usable you would also need the floppy drive
to be virtualized as a SCSI device.  OSR506 doesn't have a SCSI floppy
driver, that's going to be new in 5.0.7; but if it can be presented as a
very small SCSI hard disk, you should be able to do most things with it.

> > Ok, so VMWare must provide a BusLogic HBA and an AMD PCnet NIC as
> > emulated hardware?
> 
> AMD PCNet, definatly.  BusLogic MultiMaster PCI SCSI Host Adapter..

Those must be the simplest hardware designs to emulate, with the added
benefit of low-overhead drivers on the hosted OSes.

>Bela<
 

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