Posted Mom.app -- please help me test

[ted bonkenburg]

Hi Natalia,

Thank you very much for your comments.  They are most useful.  Normally 
I don't reply in this style, but I've addressed some of your points 
inline with your original comments below:

On 16 Oct, 2004, at 9:26 AM, Natalia Portillo wrote:

> Test machine:
> PowerBook Titanium G4 1Ghz SD 512Mb RAM
>
> Tested (only tested to boot the CD):
> MacOS 9.1 Spanish ADC -> Works fine
> MacOS 9.2.2 iBook Installation CD Spanish -> Works fine
> MacOS 9.0.2 PowerMac G4 Installation CD Spanish -> Works fine
>

Great!

> What should be changed:
> The CD is detected by guest as an external ejectable hard disk (like 
> ZIP,
> JAZ, etc), when should be detected as a CD-ROM.

I don't know enough about mol yet to fix this at the moment.

> The machine model and the CPU speed should be more adjusted to the 
> machine
> under where it is executed.

Well, I found the cpu speed detection code and there is no __darwin__ 
version in there yet, so it defaults to 350 Mhz.  That shouldn't be too 
hard to fix.  As for the processor model #, I think that targeting a 
single machine model is probably a good idea for now.

> The NVRAM should contain the startup resolution and color depth, I 
> recommend
> it to be 640x480x16 for MacOS and 800x600x32 for MacOS X guests.

I will look into this.  I didn't realize that this data was stored in 
the nvram, actually.

> The program should not require X11, but it is great that now it 
> automaticly
> starts it (not like other from-unix programs like OpenOffice), and the

Yes, I didn't want to release it for people to play with unless it 
auto-started X11.  Unfortunately, it assumes apple's X11, which I 
thought was a no-brainer but it seems some people prefer xfree86.  
Eventually I'd like to add a native quartz version, but this is low 
priority.  One thing nice about using X11 is network transparency.  Of 
course, if I really cared a lot about that then I wouldn't have done 
the ui using Cocoa. :-)

> interface can have a reclean to make it more similar to VPC for 
> example. Of
> course this is not critical.

Well, I don't want to rip off VPC completely :-)  Yes, I do have a ton 
of things I want to do to improve the interface.  I have some that I 
will do immediately.  However, my focus will switch to trying to help 
Samuel advance the port in any way that I can.

> It should be able to use .DMG through MacOS X APIs, including 
> compressed and
> encrypted ones (ok, uncompressed and unencrypted are just RAW as .ISO 
> are).
> Also, not critical.

On my list, sort of.  I'm actually more interested in sparse images and 
shadow images (for the purpose of snapshots, etc).  I was under the 
impression that compressed are read-only, so that might not do.

>
> In a resume, GREAT WORK.
>

Thanks.  I really appreciate it. :-)

> I can test other MacOS if you want, I have from 7.5.5 through 9.2.2 
> and from
> 10.1.4 to 10.4.
>
> Regards
>
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