[csw-maintainers] [csw-buildfarm] build8x problems

[Roger Håkansson]

Philip Brown wrote:
> for the record though... a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, i DID
> get solaris 8 successfully running on vmware, at least enough to run the
> installer. It was the only way i could install solaris on that particular
> hardware since there was no solaris-recognizable cdrom drive :)
> (which means that at minimum, it recogized the disks properly)
> But to do it, you would have to degrade the disks down to a
> vmware emulated "PIO mode", I think. performance would be horrible, 
> comparatively speaking.

My box running CentOS and VMware Server 2.0 which run the VM with 
Solaris8 isn't that slow compared to the host OS, but I've got a old P4 
Celeron with a IDE disk so I'm not sure if that data is anything to 
compare with...