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   Dave Yeo to All   
   Re: What fake display adapter do you use   
   12 Feb 11 09:53:06   
   
   Firefox/4.0b11 SeaMonkey/2.1b2pre   
   .os2.setup.video:61   
   From: Dave Yeo    
      
   Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:   
   >> To all of the people who run their operating systems in virtual   
   >> machines rather than on real hardware:   
   >>   
   >> What display adapter hardware does your virtual machine appear to have?   
   >>   
   >   
   > Following up on the above: I now know about emulated display adapters on   
   > Bochs and VirtualBox, including a whole load of bugs and differences   
   > from real hardware. (M. Hemsley has kindly been volunteering his   
   > VirtualBox as a testbed. I've in parallel been experimenting with   
   > Bochs.) Anyone with any other virtual machines is welcome to add to   
   > those two.   
      
   Virtual PC (the version ported by Innotek) IIRC emulated a broken S3    
   video card. Ubuntu wasn't happy with it until I found some directions on    
   the net for a fix. I can't remember much more and right now the    
   partition that has VPC installed on only exists on a backup.   
   Dave   
   ps my free newsgroup provider rejected this message for too much    
   cross-posting.   
      
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