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[trypsp]

Will run vmware pandora?



Bye!!

[BigTruck]

I believe virtualization has been discussed, and the conclusion reached was that while it will run (not necessarily vmware specifically), it will be far too slow to do anything useful.

[Kyosys]

I doubt vmware will run at all

[CandidStan]

"Will run vmware pandora?"

failed English has someone?

[sindbad]

No. Vmware does virtualisation, which assumes both the host and guest cpus are the same architecture (x86).

In order to run windows, a virtual machine that does ARM emulation would be needed. And it's not feasible.

[Kyosys]

perhaps he's not a native speaker? Not cool, man.

[Chip]

"Will run vmware pandora?"

failed English has someone?

Enough of that. Pandora is an international project and these are international forums. English may be the language of choice on these forums, but English is not the primary (or even secondary) language of many forum members. As long as someone can get the gist of their question across, we'll answer it.

This particular question has already been pretty well answered. VMware, in addition to being a commercial closed source product, will not work on any ARM platform. The only way to run an x86 compiled OS or program on the Pandora is through full emulation.

[Lurkio]

I'm viewing this as an attempted pisstake (the emoticons don't lie).

[chad78]

Assuming this was a legit question - is the OP asking if VMWare will run on the Pandora - or if VMWare will run the Pandora OS?

[emil10001]

Does it matter which way around? There's no way this would run on the Pandora, and I don't think that VMWare does any virtualization of non x86 and x84_64 architectures.

[Kyosys]

exactly. The answer to either question would be no.

[Kloplop321]

And I doubt it would have enough strength. You can get it to run XP on the PS3; but since it is on a PPC and not an x86: it is REALLY slow.. and I mean REALLY

[trypsp]

"Will run vmware pandora?"

failed English has someone?

Soy español y no domino mucho el inglés,gracias por las respuestas,aunque ahora dudo seriamente comprarme una pandora,si no rula el vmware.
Salu2

[Svartalf]

Soy español y no domino mucho el inglés,gracias por las respuestas,aunque ahora dudo seriamente comprarme una pandora,si no rula el vmware.
Salu2

Nice return volley, that.

Sadly, in response to your initial question, as others have indicated, it will not run VMWare- the CPU types are completely different. The only way to get x86 ability is to run in emulation, which on this platform, at peak (which isn't going to be easy to accomplish...), will be only about at a low-end 386 level of performance.

Edited by Svartalf, 19 June 2008 - 09:23 PM.

[trypsp]

Then the only possibility would be with bochs?that allows to emulate x86 in an ARM

bye!!