Hi Jeff,
No, I haven't used Plex86. I misunderstood your post, as you probably
realized. VGA only is scary!
> VMWare provide a special 'toolkit' for Windows guest OS's that includes
> a special SVGA driver. This special driver lets you use any resolution
> you like, and is reasonably fast too, since it probably has hooks
> directly into the VMWare app.
>
>
> The driver doesnt pretend to emulate any existing card, but appears (to
> windows) to be a new graphics card. The device manager lists it as
> 'VMware, Inc. SVGA'. Before you install this driver in the guest WinXX
> OS, windows just uses plain ol' 640x480x16 VGA, which is indeed, yuck.
This is certainly one possible approach (option 3 in my "Peripheral
Considerations" post). I think it is a very good one for a lot of
circumstances (just not the best for all circumstances). The drawback is you
really need to be a windows driver developer to implement it. This has all
sorts of (Microsoft) licensing issues and consequent restrictions on the
source licensing. Fine for a proprietory product like VMware, but maybe not
so good for an open source product... That's where emulating hardware with a
well-documented interface scores big.
By the way, I am posting by changing clicking on the "reply" link at the
bottom of the plex86 list on the "projects.uvis..." server, then changing
the address from "freemware" to "plex86". Is everyone doing something
similar, or is there an easier way?
Cheers, Colin
