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From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
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Subject: Re: VMware [Was: Re: autoconf-2.50-iscated & automake-1.5-ified packages and  SFN]
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 03:29:02 +0100
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> Tim Van Holder wrote:
> > I was planning on building bison 1.33 in a SFN environment
> > to test if it can indeed be configured out of the box (it
> > should).  But VMWare problems pretty much stopped that.
> > I'll try to try again today or tomorrow.
> 
> What kind of problems are you having with VMware? Does debugging DJGPP
> programs work under it yet? (I forked out recently for VMware 
> 3, but I haven't
> had time to test DJGPP under it yet.)

It tends to barf out with an in-VM stack fault:

** Virtual Machine kernel stack fault (hardware reset) ***

The Virtual Machine just suffered a stack fault in kernel mode.
On a real computer, this would amount to a reset of the processor


Starting a single bash and working from that reduces it somewhat;
otherwise, simply running 'cat foo' (with foo an empty file) two or
three
times causes the VM to bomb.
Also, apparently no EMS support (emm386 gives an error).  Don't think
this matters that much to DJGPP though.