On 8/3/23 1:21 PM, KenUnix wrote: Hi Ken, *Which* *version* of SCO? UnixWare, OpenServer, or something older? I don't remember the last time that I installed any SCO product in virtualization, but I am quite certain that I've gotten a basic installation of, probably, OpenServer 5.<something> in VirtualBox. I assume that I didn't try to do anything with guest additions. I /think/ that Microsoft supported SCO OpenServer and / or UnixWare in MS-VirtualPC. So you might be able to enable nested virtualization and run SCO {OpenServer,UnixWare} in MS-VPS in Windows in VirtaulBox. N.B. There is a small chance that I was using KVM and not VirtualBox as around that time I was making heavy use of both virtualization solutions, sometimes concurrently on the same system. But I'm fairly certain that I've installed SCO OpenServer 5.x in VirtualBox. -- Grant. . . .

On 8/3/23 13:21, KenUnix via cctalk wrote: I'd be curious given the nature of SCO if anyone has posted the goods to install any of them, and what versions. That aside, as mentioned by Grant, the system then was broken down with so many bits and pieces with different tariffs on the parts that it was a bitch to get one running. Not only was Linux "free" to get early on, but it didn't screw with holding back anything. Not to mention you were on your own to fix stuff and contribute to the effort. I don't know how many engineers SCO had working on support, but once Linux took off there were a lot working on it, and later a lot of resources to ask for help and support, vs. sending a bug report or support request down the black hole at SCO. I'd certainly try virtualbox, vmware and QEMU to see if it ran. I'm still playing with the latter to get guest networking going, and with older NICs on old SCO distributions, you may have some challenges having support. But the 3M controllers seemed to be a hardware universal device pre virtualization, and I'd hope any i386 virtualization would still have support. I still have boxes with hopefully SCO install goods, but haven't looked into getting them running in a long time. thanks Jim

On 8/3/23 13:21, KenUnix via cctalk wrote: I'd be curious given the nature of SCO if anyone has posted the goods to install any of them, and what versions.

From: emanuel stiebler via cctalk &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 10:20 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Cc: jim stephens &lt;jwsmail(a)jwsss.com&gt;om>; emanuel stiebler &lt;emu(a)e-bbes.com&gt; Subject: [cctalk] Re: SCO on Virtualbox Oh, for the love of god, it wasn't that difficult. We were an SCO shop for a decade. Maybe more. It worked really well for us. We had WordPerfect, Lotus and dBase. You want difficult, try using Tandy Xenix with Scripsit, Multiplan and filePro16+

Hi, I have done this using VirtualBox on Windows... The main issue is that SCO needs to not see 4GB of RAM - use the boot command options to reduce it to only using say 64MB and it will work... Regards, Robin -----Original Message----- From: KenUnix via cctalk &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2023 7:21 PM To: CCTALK &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Cc: KenUnix &lt;ken.unix.guy(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: [cctalk] SCO on Virtualbox Hi. Has anyone got SCO Unix to successfully install and run on Virtualbox? My efforts have failed. My host is Ubuntu 22.04 with Virtualbox 7.0.10. Thanks, Ken -- WWL 📚

On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 at 19:21, KenUnix via cctalk &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; wrote: No, but I have read that it is doable, with a very constrained VM. Some more info: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/366048/xenix-sco-v-running-in-cont… There are also quite a few Youtube video demos. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven(a)cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lproven(a)gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053