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OS/2 - SIGs => Emulators => Topic started by: neozeed on 2011.05.27, 05:54:11

Title: Virtual Box 4.0.8 can now run OS/2 1.1 & above!
Post by: neozeed on 2011.05.27, 05:54:11
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 (http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?p=437#more-437)

Anyways, I figure you guy's will LOVE this!
Title: Re: Virtual Box 4.0.8 can now run OS/2 1.1 & above!
Post by: Pete on 2011.05.27, 20:23:02
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


Title: Re: Virtual Box 4.0.8 can now run OS/2 1.1 & above!
Post by: ivan on 2011.05.27, 22:14:57
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
Title: Re: Virtual Box 4.0.8 can now run OS/2 1.1 & above!
Post by: 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
Title: Re: Virtual Box 4.0.8 can now run OS/2 1.1 & above!
Post by: Michaelhz on 2011.05.28, 10:33:15
.. 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
Title: Re: Virtual Box 4.0.8 can now run OS/2 1.1 & above!
Post by: markf4 on 2011.05.30, 23:24:03
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
Title: Re: Virtual Box 4.0.8 can now run OS/2 1.1 & above!
Post by: diver on 2011.06.01, 12:20:46
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
Title: Re: Virtual Box 4.0.8 can now run OS/2 1.1 & above!
Post by: yankeebean on 2011.06.05, 06:22:48
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.