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

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