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Virtualization / A new video about OS/2 after more than 4 Years...

« on: December 04, 2024, 11:51:20 pm »

Today I released a new video on Youtube, after almost 4 years rest.

It is about my attempt to virtualize OS/2 on ARM64 CPU - Windows on ARM64 - Surface Pro 11.

Unfortunately for most of you it is in German, I do not know if simultanius Online translation is possible.

I hope you enjoy!

https://youtu.be/qEM6vNOK1tc

Important notice: Until now the Video is not fully processed by Youtube, so it may take some hours to become visibale / available!

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Hardware / Re: OS/2 on ARM64 CPU - No Problem! - Surface Pro 11

« on: December 03, 2024, 06:41:33 am »

Warp 4 causes some trouble so far, but OS/2 2.1, Update on 2.11 follows today, works perfect, including Soundblaster 16.

I have to manualy add the CD Drive and will install the S3Trio64 Graphic Drivers as well, once 2.11 is updated.

Really nice.

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Hardware / Re: OS/2 on ARM64 CPU - No Problem! - Surface Pro 11

« on: November 27, 2024, 11:27:42 am »

I didn't get it first, but the trick was to run the machine and got to "Tools-Settings" to customize it (Picture attached), I will be trying to learn more about it.

Regards

I would suggest to use the 86Box Manager, there are all different VMs listed and you can configure them there a bit easier.

https://github.com/86Box/86BoxManager

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Hardware / Re: OS/2 on ARM64 CPU - No Problem! - Surface Pro 11

« on: November 26, 2024, 10:01:01 am »

Thanks for testing with X86Box. I am curious about some things.

1. Is there a mouse/keyboard integration issue? Can I move the mouse between host OS and guest OS?
2. OS/2 Warp 3 is promising. The website also shows OS/2 Warp 4. Can it run ArcaOS?
3. Is this also a possibility for the Mac? If so, which Mac CPU is supported?

Hi Neil,

here are my answers:

1. Mouse and keyboard are working stable, once I selecte Microsoft Serial Mouse at COM1 at the configuration. I have not found a Mouse Integration so far, to use it inside 86Box I have to simple click in the window, to Release it I have to use the keys ALT+ESC

2. I did not test ArcaOS by now, but why should it not work (at least all versions before 5.1) ? I tried Windows 98 yesterday and the installation started with no problem. I may test ArcaOS later, that may take some time, as I focus inside VMS on "pure" OS/2 releases (2.0 -> 4.52) for now.

3. as I do not have a Mac, I can not help here. But as my best guess I would say Yes, with the special MAC OS port it should work the same way, but that is a guess

By the way: it is quite need to use OS/2 Warp 3 on this OLED Device in Fullscreen, using the wireless Flexkeyboard and its Touchpad! 

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Hardware / Re: OS/2 on ARM64 CPU - No Problem! - Surface Pro 11

« on: November 25, 2024, 08:46:10 am »

There is a hint on reddit for a 86Box for Windows on Arm64 Beta:

https://github.com/ArminiusTux/WinARM64-binaries/releases/tag/86Box

I am going to test this as well.

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Hardware / OS/2 on ARM64 CPU - No Problem! - Surface Pro 11

« on: November 24, 2024, 11:17:57 pm »

If you want to follow my notes, how easy it was to install OS/2 in a virtual Machine with 86Box at an ARM64 Device, please read here:

https://www.os2.org/viewtopic.php?t=4197

(German, Online Translator needed)

So, the Thesis: ARM can not emulate/virtualize x86 is proofed to be wrong.

All the best!

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Setup & Installation / Re: WSeB Server parts on ARcaOS 5.1 with installed Samba - what to deinstall?

« on: October 30, 2024, 10:55:33 pm »

Sigurd, what bldlevel does your copy of LANINST.PGM report?

Hi Steven,

I unfortunately can not find a file with this name on my pc, where I do have the copied CID files form the WSeB CD as well. (A full serach ended with no result).

Where should this file be located?

Thanks again!

Aaah this is soooo fun. Anyway on the WSeB CD (this can depend on the language). On an English WSeB its located in:
\CID\SERVER\IBMLS\IBM500S1
In that directory is:
SRVRINST.ZIP

In that ZIP file on my system is LANINST.PGM.

Roderick

While I can't see the fun in this, maybe because of my german sense of Humor, I will Look there.

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Setup & Installation / Re: WSeB Server parts on ARcaOS 5.1 with installed Samba - what to deinstall?

« on: October 30, 2024, 11:24:31 am »

Sigurd, what bldlevel does your copy of LANINST.PGM report?

Hi Steven,

I unfortunately can not find a file with this name on my pc, where I do have the copied CID files form the WSeB CD as well. (A full serach ended with no result).

Where should this file be located?

Thanks again!

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Setup & Installation / Re: WSeB Server parts on ARcaOS 5.1 with installed Samba - what to deinstall?

« on: October 28, 2024, 07:11:52 pm »

Sigurd,

This

  SS:ESP=05c7:00003732  SSACC=00f3  SSLIM=00003fff

indicates we failed with stack overflow.  Of course, this does not tell us why.  We need to see to logs to get some idea of what the installer was doing at the time of the exception.

Hi Steven,

attached are the only two log files related to lan server stuff, I was able to find.

There are no Server related logs in \var.

Thank you very much,

Sigurd

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Setup & Installation / Re: WSeB Server parts on ARcaOS 5.1 with installed Samba - what to deinstall?

« on: October 27, 2024, 03:36:25 pm »

Thanks Doug,

but unfortunately no change.

I think, I will start from scratch once I have time for it.

Thanks to all!

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Setup & Installation / Re: WSeB Server parts on ARcaOS 5.1 with installed Samba - what to deinstall?

« on: October 27, 2024, 01:40:56 am »

Thank you Roderick and David, but none of the tipps helped. The same POPUPLOG.OS2 as before.

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Setup & Installation / Re: WSeB Server parts on ARcaOS 5.1 with installed Samba - what to deinstall?

« on: October 26, 2024, 12:27:25 pm »

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Setup & Installation / Re: WSeB Server parts on ARcaOS 5.1 with installed Samba - what to deinstall?

« on: October 25, 2024, 08:31:28 pm »

Hi Steven,

thank you very much for looking into this!

This is what POPUPLOG.OS2 shows:

10-25-2024  20:28:18  SYS3175  PID 0059  TID 0002  Slot 00a7
C:\IBMLAN\INSTALL\IBMLAN\INSTALL\LANINST.PGM
c0000005
0007abf7
P1=00000008  P2=00004f34  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX 
EAX=00000005  EBX=0000004e  ECX=0000000c  EDX=e3980000
ESI=00b90000  EDI=00370000 
DS=0000  DSACC=****  DSLIM=******** 
ES=05c7  ESACC=00f3  ESLIM=00003fff 
FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=003f:0000abf7  CSACC=00fb  CSLIM=0000dd83
SS:ESP=05c7:00003732  SSACC=00f3  SSLIM=00003fff
EBP=00b9504f  FLG=00010212

LANINST.PGM 0006:0000abf7


Is it of any help?

Thanks again!!

EDIT;

Searching for SYS3175OS/2 leads me to this homepage:

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/os2-warp-server-40-sys3175-installation-error-and-multiple-cd-rom-drives-servers

It refers to multiple CDROM Drives, if I understand correctly. But I do not have more than one, and this is usb.
I will try to disable USB CDROM Support and try it again.


EDIT II:
Same error, no difference

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Setup & Installation / OS/2 Warp 4 Tutorial on ArcaOS 5.1

« on: October 24, 2024, 08:06:30 pm »

To full fill my attempt of turning ArcaOS 5.1 in OS/2 Warp 4, I try to get the Tutorial to run.

I copied all the necessary files etc. like I did so many times before, beginning with some ( I do not know exactly wich ) Version of ArcaOS the Tutorial does not work as designed.

It creates the Training Folder on the desktop, but instead of showing the application it opens teh help file with the viewer, please see attached picture.

I guess this is the problem: the files must be connected to the viewer in some way.

Is it possible to turn this back for the tutorial program?

What do I have to do to get it up and running?

Thanks in Advance!

 

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Setup & Installation / WSeB Server parts on ARcaOS 5.1 with installed Samba - what to deinstall?

« on: October 24, 2024, 05:00:17 pm »

I want to install the WSeB Server parts on Top of ArcaOS 5.1, as I did several times before, using the great tool of Alex Taylor.

Unfortunately I missed the point to NOT install Samba/Network parts during the initial ArcaOS Installation. So I do get an error code (I think it is something like X1604, do not have it around yet) when trying to install the WSeB parts.


As I do not want to reinstall everything from scratch (it is a bit of a special installation, what would lead to a lot of work), what components do I have to deinstall, and how, to get the Server Tool from Alex to let it do what it is supposed to do?

Thank you very much for hints!

I will attach a screenshot of the error code in a few hours.

EDIT: added Screenshot