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Virtual Box 4.0.8 can now run OS/2 1.1 & above!

Started by neozeed, 2011.05.27, 05:54:11

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neozeed

Really, it's very cool!

And I've even managed to install a 1.1 beta, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 in it!  I did have to modify some drivers because of timing issues, as mentioned on OS/2 Museum. http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?p=437#more-437

Anyways, I figure you guy's will LOVE this!

Pete

hi

Looks like you had a little fun playing around with installing ancient versions of OS/2 in a current build of VirtualBox  :-)

However, I must admit to being more interested in a current build of VirtualBox that works on late Warp4/eComstation systems.

Regards

Pete



ivan

Pete, I fully agree with you there.  It's getting harder and harder to check problems that are on clients win7 machines when I can't run win7 in a virtual machine.

ivan

Pete

Hi ivan

Well, it looks like work has started on porting VBox - see http://svn.netlabs.org/vbox

Guess it's time to put some money into the sponsorship pot here http://www.mensys.com/shop/VirtualBoxPorting in the hope that it will speed up delivery of a working VBox.

Regards

Pete

Michaelhz

.. the last change was done 9 months ago. The initial work of diver was continued only a short time. Obviously we have too less funding and too less developers....

Michael

markf4

Quote from: Pete on 2011.05.28, 04:04:13
Hi ivan

Well, it looks like work has started on porting VBox - see http://svn.netlabs.org/vbox

Guess it's time to put some money into the sponsorship pot here http://www.mensys.com/shop/VirtualBoxPorting in the hope that it will speed up delivery of a working VBox.

Regards

Pete



I just put up some $$ for the port

diver

we are still working on that. but right now on a very low base, as we decided to have other projects (like Java) done first.
i'm still commited to VBox port and it will be done. But i can't give a date right now.

regards
Silvan

yankeebean

I'm currently running eCs v2.0 as a guest in vbox 4.0.8 with host Linux Mint 11 on
ASUS P8Q67-M DO / i7-2600k / Intel IGP-HD3000.  Using gengrad and vbox extensions.

Overall experience is good: startup from snapshot image is about 2secs, EVFS shares host drives nicely, bundled Firefox v3.5.3 works fine (having some difficulties running v3.6.x), fullscreen mode is good, benchmarks of virtualized CPU run 2x-3x over previous baremetal AMD64 3200 and virtualized graphics run 2x-10x over previous baremetal ATI X300.

By the way, Mint 11 is slick itself, based on Ubuntu 11.04 with the new/unstable Unity interface removed and media codecs added in.