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   Jonathan de Boyne Pollard to All   
   Re: What fake display adapter do you use   
   14 Feb 11 02:44:41   
   
   Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7   
   .beta,comp.os.os2.programmer.misc   
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   .os2.setup.video:64 comp.os.os2.beta:19 comp.os.os2.programmer.misc:1923   
   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   > Qemu seems to emulate Cirrus Logic 5446 1013:00b8   
   > at least in an old 0.9 version here.   
   >   
   Thank you.  That groups it with Bochs.  (It's a pretty flawed emulation    
   if it's anything like the Bochs one.)   
      
      
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