17 Feb
2010
17 Feb
'10
5:31 a.m.
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:57 AM, Andrew Back wrote:
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.
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.
Pat
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> 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.