Amithlon and VMWare

30 May 2010, 19:05

Has anyone been able to run Amithlon as a guest under VMWare?

thomas · 30 May 2010, 20:29

No.

vk3heg · 02 June 2010, 14:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by bdalzell

Has anyone been able to run Amithlon as a guest under VMWare?

Amithlon wont work with any of the ones I've tryed:

Sun/Oracle Virtual box,
Vmware ESXI

It just sites there with the bouncing ball.

ghost_of_war · 11 June 2010, 12:26

Too bad, that would be great to have....

thomas · 11 June 2010, 12:36

If you want to run Amithlon on VMWare on Windows you can as well run WinUAE on Windows. Same emulator, same feeling. One virtual machine less, more speed.

tero · 12 June 2010, 14:12

Amithlon would be the first choice on supported hardware.
With accelareted gfx it's ways faster then Winuae on the same machine
The problem is to find fast supported hardware

Amithlon on a Virtuall machine is in general a bad idea...
with uae/winuae you have nearly all amiga models
while Amithlon is a 3.9 system with rtg only
there are no native screenmodes (ok i lied, on some programs it can be cheated to a rtg screen)

if you want to play games, better go with winuae

Retro1234 · 12 June 2010, 17:53

A quick seach and theres a ScreenShot form Ratte running Amithlon on VirtualPc 5.2
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showpost.ph...5&postcount=41

I wouldnt mind checking it out this way - but setting up Amithlon seems a task -If a HD file for VP apperead that would be good

tero · 12 June 2010, 18:01

vpc 5.2 is the only working version?
i wonder why...

HeZoR · 01 July 2010, 19:47

Yes the old Virtual PC works fine with amithlon.
I've tested it, but can't recall it's stability.

Retro1234 · 01 July 2010, 20:04

Anychance of uploading a .vhd file

vk3heg · 02 July 2010, 05:27

Anyone got a download for Virtual PC 5.2?
I gather this is the version before MS purchased the company that made it?

Just read this on a review of VPC:

On the downside, Virtual PC lacks support for USB peripherals, network cards in a guest machine, virtual serial connections between guest machines, and complex virtual networks.

Retro1234 · 02 July 2010, 13:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by vk3heg

Anyone got a download for Virtual PC 5.2?
I gather this is the version before MS purchased the company that made it?

Just read this on a review of VPC:

On the downside, Virtual PC lacks support for USB peripherals, network cards in a guest machine, virtual serial connections between guest machines, and complex virtual networks.

http://.com/files/26789620/Virtual_PC_5.2.rar

VirtualPC is nice and easy to use

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boo Boo

Anychance of uploading a .vhd file

Ratte · 02 July 2010, 15:27

Important:
Enter the VPC5.2 BIOS and enable ACPI.
Save Settings.
Otherwise Amithlon wont work on VPC5.2!

And ... only Kernel3.x with bigird.gz works.
smallird.gz fails ...
(Give your HDD a higher prio and it boots before amithlon-ramdrive)

I didnt tried it with Kernel4.

Have fun!

21 August 2011, 06:48

Ive had success running AMIthlon inside QEMU only to the point of preparing partitions and filesystems...

However...this is a big deal-breaker here...
YOU HAVE NO ACCESS BEYOND THE INITIAL AMITHLON RAMDISK WORKBENCH

thats right... as soon as the HDD is prepared I can not transfer anything to it
so my OS3.5 and OS3.9 CD's are useless (even imaging them and trying that way also failed)

ScreenShot of the post-boot AMIthlon with 768MB of ram given
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11964747/AMI...ScreenShot.png

30 May 2010, 19:05	#1
bdalzell Posts: n/a	Amithlon and VMWare Has anyone been able to run Amithlon as a guest under VMWare?

01 July 2010, 19:47	#9
HeZoR Registered User Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Edessa / Greece Posts: 33	Virtual PC & Amithlon Yes the old Virtual PC works fine with amithlon. I've tested it, but can't recall it's stability.

01 July 2010, 20:04	#10
Retro1234 Phone Homer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: 5150 Posts: 5,775	Anychance of uploading a .vhd file Last edited by Retro1234; 02 July 2010 at 13:05.

02 July 2010, 05:27	#11
vk3heg Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Australia Age: 55 Posts: 222	Anyone got a download for Virtual PC 5.2? I gather this is the version before MS purchased the company that made it? Just read this on a review of VPC: On the downside, Virtual PC lacks support for USB peripherals, network cards in a guest machine, virtual serial connections between guest machines, and complex virtual networks. Last edited by vk3heg; 02 July 2010 at 05:29. Reason: add info.

21 August 2011, 06:48	#14
Belxjander Posts: n/a	AMIthlon under QEMU Ive had success running AMIthlon inside QEMU only to the point of preparing partitions and filesystems... However...this is a big deal-breaker here... YOU HAVE NO ACCESS BEYOND THE INITIAL AMITHLON RAMDISK WORKBENCH thats right... as soon as the HDD is prepared I can not transfer anything to it so my OS3.5 and OS3.9 CD's are useless (even imaging them and trying that way also failed) ScreenShot of the post-boot AMIthlon with 768MB of ram given http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11964747/AMI...ScreenShot.png Last edited by Belxjander; 21 August 2011 at 07:03. Reason: Added ScreenShot reference

30 May 2010, 20:29	#2
thomas Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 6,993	No.

11 June 2010, 12:26	#4
ghost_of_war Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: Florida, USA Age: 52 Posts: 57	Too bad, that would be great to have....

11 June 2010, 12:36	#5
thomas Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 6,993	If you want to run Amithlon on VMWare on Windows you can as well run WinUAE on Windows. Same emulator, same feeling. One virtual machine less, more speed.

12 June 2010, 14:12	#6
tero Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: M'Gladbach Age: 46 Posts: 621	Amithlon would be the first choice on supported hardware. With accelareted gfx it's ways faster then Winuae on the same machine The problem is to find fast supported hardware Amithlon on a Virtuall machine is in general a bad idea... with uae/winuae you have nearly all amiga models while Amithlon is a 3.9 system with rtg only there are no native screenmodes (ok i lied, on some programs it can be cheated to a rtg screen) if you want to play games, better go with winuae

12 June 2010, 17:53	#7
Retro1234 Phone Homer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: 5150 Posts: 5,775	A quick seach and theres a ScreenShot form Ratte running Amithlon on VirtualPc 5.2 http://www.a1k.org/forum/showpost.ph...5&postcount=41 I wouldnt mind checking it out this way - but setting up Amithlon seems a task -If a HD file for VP apperead that would be good

12 June 2010, 18:01	#8
tero Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: M'Gladbach Age: 46 Posts: 621	vpc 5.2 is the only working version? i wonder why...

02 July 2010, 15:27	#13
Ratte Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Germany Posts: 331	Important: Enter the VPC5.2 BIOS and enable ACPI. Save Settings. Otherwise Amithlon wont work on VPC5.2! And ... only Kernel3.x with bigird.gz works. smallird.gz fails ... (Give your HDD a higher prio and it boots before amithlon-ramdrive) I didnt tried it with Kernel4. Have fun!

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