Re: Direct access to hardware

From: Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Date: Sat Jul 22 2000 - 14:52:53 EST


On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Ville Herva wrote:

>> XFree86
>
>X, dosemu and VMWare.

X does, however DOSemu does not need direct access necessarily.
It depends on how it is configured, and what you need it to do.

VMware creates a virtual hardware environment which is
implemented by talking to linux device drivers. No linux driver,
no hardware in VMware. I do not believe VMware touches the
hardware directly for anything, at least not according to them.

I just wanted to clear this up (hopefully correctly) because
people might not want to use Vmware for fear of hardware access,
which doesn't happen.

TTYL

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