17 Feb
2010
17 Feb
'10
10:47 a.m.
On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
I'm sorry, I don't recall exactly. I *think* it was something
along the lines of not being able to run unless host CPU supports
hardware virtualization. I am finishing up some time-critical stuff
right now; I will try it again tomorrow and let you know where it
blows up.
IIRC, it has to do with the way OS/2 uses segment registers/the
MMU. It
appears, however, that VirtualBox supports OS/2. Based on how
annoying
VMware has been over the past few years, and what you can do (for
free)
with VirtualBox, I would strongly suggest trying that instead.
Yeah. I'm already running VMware though, as VirtualBox won't run
SCO UNIX, which I need to have available to support clients. I
(myself) just wanted to mess with OS/2 a bit to familiarize myself
with it before trying to get it running on the service processor of
my Multiprise 3000.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
>> I was
curious to see if anyone mentioned VMware as an emulation
>> environment
>> on this list. The archives show a brief conversation about it
>> in 2002
>> regarding whether it could run OS/2.
>
> I don't see why it wouldn't run OS/2, or most other operating
> systems that
> were available on x86.
I've had no luck at all getting OS/2 running under VMware ESXi.
Oh. Where did it fail? OS/2 didn't support the emulated graphics?
Perhaps I have an oversimplified view of the issues involved in
running
classic x86 operating systems under modern virtualisation.