POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Virtual PC 2007 : Re: Virtual PC 2007 Server Time
6 Sep 2024 21:22:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Virtual PC 2007  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 23 Oct 2008 12:25:46
Message: <4900a58a$1@news.povray.org>
Tom Austin wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>> Anybody ever run a Linux distro under this beastie?
> 
> I have
> 
> It's been a while, but if I remember right, the biggest problem is color 
> depth.  If you can get past that, you should be in good shape.
> 
> You may run into some driver problems as well.  IIRC the kernel 'generic 
> ide' driver was not playing nice - lots of timeouts - disabled it and 
> things went smoother.
> 
> 
> There is a pretty large speed hit, but I didn't have cpu virtulization 
> extensions available.
> 
> All in all it worked pretty good
> 
> 
> Hope this helps some.
> 
> LAter...  Tom

Hmm, May give me a way of playing with Linux in a virtual box, though.

-- 
~Mike


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