22 Jul
2009
22 Jul
'09
7:13 p.m.
Mark Tapley wrote:
At Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:59:06 -0400, Jim Scheef wrote:
There was an OS/2 port of VirtualPC 5.1 by InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH in
2001-2002. Innotek was a tiny German company that used the OS/2 win32
subsystem project known as Odin to port several windows applications
including Acrobat reader and Flash 5 to OS/2. After Connectix sold all its
intellectual property to microsoft a few years ago, both the Mac and OS/2
versions of VirtualPC were deadended. Innotek went on to create the
VirtualBox project which was bought out by Sun Microsystems a couple years
ago. Since VirtualBox has an open source version, there is also an OS/2
port of it available
http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/index.php?page=virtualbox It is not up to
the most current version on the officially supported platforms like BSD,
Mac, Linux, Solaris and windows because the OS/2 port of QT4 is still being
worked on, but it does work. As to VirtualPC/2 5.1 I have that as well as
another VM product for OS//2 (actually eComStation, the OEM follow on to
OS/2) called SVISTA which was created by the company that went on to become
Parallels. Unfortunately they abandoned the SVISTA product when they
changed the name to Parallels and SVISTA never worked as well as
VirtualPC/2 or was as feature complete. Anyway with any of these you can
run OS/2 (I don't think the 1.x versions ran though) or pretty much any
other OS under OS/2 or eComStation.
I had emailed Jim privately several days ago but I guess he never got it.
Mark
From: Jim Scheef <scheefj at netscape.net>
Subject: Wanted: OS/2 version of Virtual PC
Several years ago there was a company called Connectix that made what is
now Microsoft Virtual PC. I would very much like to obtain a copy of the
version that ran on OS/2. This is needed for my networking project so I
can play with OS/2 LAN Manager running in emulation.
An ISO of the CD would be fine but I would be willing to pay modestly
for a complete package with any manuals, etc.
Please reply off list.
Thanks,
Jim
A friend of mine worked for Connectix, and I contacted him about this.
His response was:
At 0:53 -0700 7/21/09, John Chang wrote:
Sorry, Mark. I do not know where to get a copy.
Connectix Virtual PC
ran on
the Mac only, and it emulated MS DOS and Windows. I do not think that
Insignia
Solutions SoftPC and SoftWindows ran on OS/2. OS/2 like Windows NT is
supposed
to run its own emulation mode for DOS and legacy Windows applications. I
suspect that the poster really wants to run OS/2 on Virtual PC,
SoftPC, or
SoftWindows. I do not think that any of the emulators will do that.
He wanted me to add the caveat that he is not 100% sure of his answer.
I hope this is helpful!