Parallels Workstation Emulated Hardware Details
An annoying thing about emulators is that most emulators emulating PC hardware aren’t that detailed about what hardware they are actually emulating. This post summarizes the hardware emulated by a typical Parallels Workstation 2.2 installation by listing the output of various utilities.
lspci output
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Unknown device aaaa:1121 00:03.0 Bridge: Unknown device aaaa:1112 00:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) 00:1e.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 08) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio ( rev 02)
dmesg output
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0×1080, IRQ 10, 00:AC:B1:1A:13:B1. ide0: BM-DMA at 0×1840-0×1847, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA hda: Virtual HDD [0], ATA DISK drive hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 16384032 sectors (8388 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16254/16/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes supported