Hostbridge How?

[Valken]

I am new to AROS, Win 7 Pro x64 hosted.

I am testing Icaros Desktop. Fast and snappy but lack of support to mount NTFS volumes from VMware makes it less useful.

How do I enable Hostbridge when hosted in Windows 7 VMWare? The Hosted folder is empty on the Dec Xmas iso builds. I could not find a previous build with this function working yet.

Any help appreciated.

[Amiwell]

the best hosted solution is with linux if not alternatively if you use windows is the virtual machine, if you don't want to use the system natively

http://vmwaros.blogspot.co.uk/p/versions-comparison.html

best

[paolone]

I am new to AROS, Win 7 Pro x64 hosted.

I am testing Icaros Desktop. Fast and snappy but lack of support to mount NTFS volumes from VMware makes it less useful.

How do I enable Hostbridge when hosted in Windows 7 VMWare? The Hosted folder is empty on the Dec Xmas iso builds. I could not find a previous build with this function working yet.

Any help appreciated.

2.3 Xmas preview is untested for Windows hostbridge. It should work, though, since nothing changed for Windows hosted per-se.


Something might have broken Windows hosted, please use 2.2.x if you wish to use that feature.


BTW, I am considering to declare Windows hosted mode unsupported, for next releases.

[Valken]

Thanks for everyone's help.

I got it working now under Windows 7 x64 hostbridge mode. I had to mount the ISO file in a virtual cdrom to show up properly. This should be documented better for the future.

It is VERY FAST under hosted mode. Makes Windows 7 feel slow actually!

Suggestion would be consider audio playback under OpenAL passthrough instead of DirectX on Windows. That may be an easier development chain?

OpenGL for 3D video?

I tried it also under VMware and it works fairly well, but the lack of NTFS reading of VMWare mounted HDD/SSD or native NTFS folders is annoying. It is weird to setup a "FTP" between VMware and the hosted PC just to transfer files.

[paolone]

Hi. Under Windows, in working condition, Icaros created HDC:, HDD:, HDE: etc. A volume for every windows volume it finds.


As I said, please use Icaros 2.2.x for Windows hosted mode to be fully operational.