Re: first contact

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> The only "standard" that is applicable here is that of the IA32
> architecture and the peripherial devices, not all of those latter are well
> standardized.  As the Hurd certainly runs on an IA32 machine (it runs on
> mine!), any problem of running it inside VMWare is a bug in VMWare.

This is not necessarily true.  The IA32 spec might well underspecify
things, and we accidentally take advantage of how things are always
done in hardware, but not actually specified by IA32, and in which
VMWare happens to behave differently.