Compatibility with VMware and Microsoft virtualization products?

[andybehm]

I tried the current download 0.3.1 under Virtual PC on a HP Pavilion AMD64 laptop, and it runs the memtest fine, but when I boot the stress or noinitrd I get very frequent error messages (about 1 - 2 seconds apart) saying:
hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriverReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0

That pretty makes it unusable since the display is constantly being trashed by these messages.

The other limitation seems that there is no Motherboard selection that would be appropriate for a Virtual PC environment.

You might want to consider adding direct support for Virtual PC. But I realize supporting everything is never practical, sigh.