Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> You all must be really bored by success-stories right now, but I managed to
> do a CD install of Red Hat Linux 7.1 as guest on a RHL71 host,
> screenshots of the process are at
>
> http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/plex86/
It's still an interesting report. It's good to know that as
many OSes as possible can run in plex86, other than the one that
you'll really end up using for the host. :^)
>
> Host is a dual PIII 800Mhz, and the guest is a 2.4 kernel all the way
> through installation. The only real gotcha is that plex seems to emulate a
> Pentium without FPU, and the i586 kernel doesn't like that too much, so I
> had to revert to the RH i386 kernel (which has FPU emulation).
For now, I peg the virtualized CPU at Pentium with no FPU. (That's
what I return from CPUID as well as emulate in other parts). I'll
add the FPU stuff in later.
-Kevin
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