Comments | ladyserenakitty: VMWare and xVM

ladyserenakitty

VMWare and xVM

Mar 31, 2009 01:00

Today, I fired up VMWare, and it decided my license key is no longer valid. Yes, this is a key for VMWare 1, and I had VMWare 2. Yes, VMWare said the key for 1 should work with 2, but apparently that isn't the case anymore. $90 software lost, gone, poof, just like that. I'm none too happy about that ( Read more... )

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beos anonymous June 4 2009, 13:32:22 UTC

hi, how did you manage to get BeOS working? I couldn't even boot it...

Re: beos ladyserenakitty June 4 2009, 15:52:54 UTC

BeOS is an interesting system since you have to get the boot floppy image for it to work. Every time I wanted to make a new bootable BeOS CD, I had to issue a command something similar to (on FreeBSD):
burncd -des max beos-boot.img beos-cd.iso fixate

Or (on BeOS):
cdrecord -v speed=max dev=900 beos-boot.img beos-cd.iso

This would make the CD bootable by placing the boot floppy image at the beginning of the disc. In your VM app, you don't have to do it this way, you can set the BeOS boot floppy as the virtual floppy disk, and the BeOS CD image as the CD drive.

Haiku also provides hard disk images for VMWare as well as raw disk images.