At 19:52 2001-02-18 -0500, you wrote:
>Forst of all, I want to tell you that my jaw dropped to the floor when I
>ran Plex86 the first time. Seeing that familiar DOS boot screen was just
>incredible. I've figured out how to partition and format the "drive" and
>I've even attempted to install Windows on it. After playing with it, I
>have some questions.
>
>1) Can I allocate any more than 32MB of RAM to Plex86?
A quick peek in vm_init_memory(...) [user.c] does not seems to limit the
maximum amount of ram that can be allocated. Maybe a limitation exists
somewhere else, but I don't think so.
>2) Can Plex86 boot from the HD image created, rather than a floppy disk?
>Do you simply specify the HD image as the boot image as well?
The correct option is:
bochs-opt boot: c
Be sure your image is bootable, though
>3) Is there a way to get Plex86 to boot and existing installation of
>Windows on another physical drive?
If your disk is small enough to satisfy the geometry limits of Plex86, then
it should work. I would not recommend it, though. If I'm not mistaken, the
previous 504MB limit has been removed, so you probably can use your disk.
>I used the FreeDOS boot image to partition and format the "drive" then
>used a Win89 boot disk to enable CD-ROM support and ran setup from a
>WinME CD. It runs scandisk fine, but seems to hang at the finished w/
>scandisk screen.
Known problem. Some people have suggested a race condition. Unless fixed,
you won't be able to terminate a scandisk. Look on the net how to disable it.
>4) How do I install a Windows envorinment for Plex86 to run if not from
>a Win CD?
I think the current implementation of the CD is working. However, you
should probably use Bochs to do this task. Remember, though, that Plex86
will work with Win95 and NT4, but other flavors of Windows are not known to
work yet.
>5) What performance tweaks can you recommend to get the VM to run any
>faster?
Wait a couple of weeks or use Bochs meanwhile. Kevin is currently working
on speed improvements, and they are very promising so far.
>Thanks in advance!
Hoping it helped,
EL
