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OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical => Applications => Topic started by: christech on August 10, 2023, 08:01:56 pm

Title: VBox OS2
Post by: christech on August 10, 2023, 08:01:56 pm
I am trying to install VBox on ArcaOS. When installing the dependencies I get the error:

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Error: Package: libxslt-1.1.34-2.oc00.pentium4 (netlabs-rel)
           Requires: gcrypt20.dll

I can't seem to locate gcrypt20 anywhere.
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: Pete on August 10, 2023, 08:33:29 pm
Hi

You can use ANPM to find needed "nixy" files:-

1] select Find
2] select file
3]enter filename eg gcrypt20.dll

The result will be the package containing needed file - in this instance libgcrypt


Regards

Pete
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: christech on August 10, 2023, 08:48:49 pm
I tried using ANPM and it did not find the file I needed. I did find some alternate instructions but VirtualBox has an error "Failed to create VirtualBoxClient COM object"
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: Dave Yeo on August 10, 2023, 10:19:19 pm
I tried using ANPM and it did not find the file I needed. I did find some alternate instructions but VirtualBox has an error "Failed to create VirtualBoxClient COM object"

That is a common error. Sometimes if you wait before retrying, it clears up. Also make sure you don't have much else running.
BTW, another way to find the package a file comes from is "yum provides libgcrypt" It is pretty sensitive to the name being exact.
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: David McKenna on August 10, 2023, 10:48:49 pm
 FWIW - one thing I have to do to get VBox running on ArcaOS, is add the line 'LIBCX_HIGHMEM=2' (no quotes) on the 'Environment' tab under the 'Properties' of the VBox object. Won't run here without it...

Regards,
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: Pete on August 11, 2023, 12:40:13 am
Hi David

The alternative is a config.sys entry

REM ***** Next line required due to lbcx update versions causing problems with VirtualBox
SET LIBCX_HIGHMEM=2


Regards

Pete
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: David McKenna on August 11, 2023, 01:42:48 am
Hey Pete!

 Yep, that will work too, but then every program will use it, and at least so far I have only needed it for VBox...

Regards,
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: Martin Iturbide on August 11, 2023, 04:34:10 pm
Hello

I want to give it a try to VBOX, I haven't run it in years.
- Which version are you using today?

Regards
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: Martin Iturbide on August 11, 2023, 06:27:02 pm
Hello

I want to give it a try to VBOX, I haven't run it in years.
- Which version are you using today?

Regards
Ok, Im trying this version on ArcaOS:
- ftp://osfree.org/upload/vbox/vbox-os2-i386-v5.0.51.zip
- yum install libaio
- Installed the driver on config.sys.

Now the VM runs, but I still need to install some old Windows 95 to give it a try.

Regards
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: christech on August 11, 2023, 11:18:17 pm
I’ll be playing with it soon. Just been busy with work.
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: David McKenna on August 12, 2023, 07:00:33 pm
Quote

Ok, Im trying this version on ArcaOS:
- ftp://osfree.org/upload/vbox/vbox-os2-i386-v5.0.51.zip


 Martin,

  That's the one I'm using too. I have a Linux (Ubuntu), WinXP and Win7 VM running pretty good. Tried 32 bit Win10, but our VBox is missing CPU requirements for that unfortunately - also wants 2GB RAM minimum.

Regards,
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: christech on August 13, 2023, 04:28:39 pm
Thanks David. Took me a few minutes to figure out why I had no Environment tab. Figured it out and added the entry and it looks like I’ll be playing with some ISOs in VirtualBox! Thanks!
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: christech on August 13, 2023, 11:49:37 pm
I got some ISOs to try. Win98se does not load at all. Tries to boot from CD and then VBox aborts loading. Going to try another ISO.
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: Olafur Gunnlaugsson on August 14, 2023, 02:38:40 am
I got some ISOs to try. Win98se does not load at all. Tries to boot from CD and then VBox aborts loading. Going to try another ISO.

As an alternative, if you cannot get VBox functioning, VirtualPC for OS/2 runs all older Microsoft OS's and SVista runs most of them.
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: christech on August 15, 2023, 07:56:12 pm
I was able to install Win98se on my Thinkpad. My Dell tower seems to hang about 7% consistently when installing. I'm going to play around with the settings to see if I can get it to work.
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: MPJ on August 16, 2023, 04:56:54 pm


As an alternative, if you cannot get VBox functioning, VirtualPC for OS/2 runs all older Microsoft OS's and SVista runs most of them.
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Is Sivsta perhaps already abandonware that it could be made available to the general public and archived?
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: Roderick Klein on August 17, 2023, 04:28:14 pm
Svista has never become abandonware. It now is part of Parallels workstation for the Mac. The issue is that the code is still owned by Parallels now.

Roderick
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: christech on August 19, 2023, 05:32:56 am
Anyone know how to attach USB devices in vBox? I used lsusb to find the device but vBox will not attach it
Title: Re: VBox OS2
Post by: Bernhard Pöttinger on August 30, 2023, 10:27:03 am
Hi,
I have a lot virtual machines running under vbox in arcaos:

 - OS/2 Warp4, Warp3, ArcaOS 5.0.7
 - FreeDOS, MSDOS 7-5, Win98
 - WinNT, WinXP, Windows 7
 - Debian Linux, Arch32 Linux, Slitaz Linux, OpenStep

I use the OS4kernel, because this one is supporting VTX.

Bernhard