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Martin Iturbide:

--- Quote from: Greggory Shaw on March 28, 2017, 01:47:03 am ---Well, since you already bought a license check out - https://winworldpc.com/product/os-2-warp-4/os-2-warp-452

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The release date was changed to April 15 according to the last announcement.

Regards

jkpalmer:
Been a few weeks since I last commented/solicited.

I have found my old CD's for OS/2 Version 3 but the installation floppies are long gone.

I see some commentary about installing OS/2 on a VirtualBox.

I have VirtualBox installed on an iMac. 

Is installing OS/2 on this VM do-able?

If so, my next question would be, how to get the installation disk information from the CD to be available to be used to install PS/2 on the VirtualBox.

Help / guidance greatly appreciated.

Jim P.

Martin Iturbide:
Hi Jim

Warp 3 is doable on VirtualBox. If the iMac has an intel processor with VT-x it is doable. Check if it is an Intel processor that has that function.

My suggestion to install Warp 3 is:
1) Insert the CD and grab the disk images required to boot. If I don't get it wrong it should be . INSTALL.DSK, DISK1.DSK or DISK1-CD.DSK (I'm trying to remember, I'm not complete sure)
2) You need to change that .DSK images to a format that VirtualBox can recognize as Virtual diskette image. On my case I had changed the .DSK files to .IMA with WinImage for Windows. But I'm not sure what you can use if you want to do it on an iMac. I guess there should be a lot of other ways to transform the .dsk to .ima.
3) Once you have the IMA disk images, you can create your VirtualBox VM, just create it with the normal settings and mount the .IMA files on the diskette icon once you start the VM.

Give it a try and post back if you get stucked somewhere.

Regards

Andy Willis:
I know the Warp v4 CD had them, I am not sure about V3 but there is a good chance, the V4 disks had the floppy images on the CD so that they could be recreated from it.  I am not sure if the images are directly compatible with the VirtualBox floppy, of if the VB floppy can only be connected to a real drive (IOW, I do not know if the floppy can use an image the way the CD can use an ISO and if it can if the image formats are the same).

ak120:
There are a lot of misleading advises in this thread.

1. The disk image files (DISK0.DSK, DISK1_CD.DSK) are contained in the subdirecory \DISKIMGS\OS2\35 of the installation CD-ROM.
2. There's simply no need to convert them to a different image format. They are already in uncompressed form and can be used by virtualisation software directly.
3. Only the VirtualBox GUI configuration method for a VM has problems because of the filename extension. So simply add a *.img to the filename extension should resolve this stupid behavior.
4. VirtualBox only supports physical floppy drives for Windows host systems, but virtual images for all host systems.

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