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These are some notes to install OS/2 Warp 4 as a guest OS on VirtualBox. | These are some notes to install OS/2 Warp 4 as a guest OS on VirtualBox. | ||
If you are looking to install OS/2 Warp 4.52 or eComStation as a Virtualbox guest please visit [[VirtualBox Guest]]. | If you are looking to install OS/2 Warp 4.52 or eComStation as a Virtualbox guest please visit [[OS/2 Warp 4.52 as a VirtualBox 6.x Guest]] or [[EComStation 2.x as a VirtualBox 5.x Guest]]. | ||
==Installation Notes== | ==Installation Notes== |
Latest revision as of 18:29, 8 December 2024
These are some notes to install OS/2 Warp 4 as a guest OS on VirtualBox.
If you are looking to install OS/2 Warp 4.52 or eComStation as a Virtualbox guest please visit OS/2 Warp 4.52 as a VirtualBox 6.x Guest or EComStation 2.x as a VirtualBox 5.x Guest.
Installation Notes
If you are trying to install OS/2 Warp 4 (revision 9.023) it is useful for you to get a set of updated diskette images for the Installation Disk 1 and Disk 2. This is important to support bigger hard drivers like 2 GB. (or in this case bigger virtual HDD images).
Installing VirtualBox Guest Add-ons
Without any Warp 4 fixpacks installed, if you want to install VirtualBox Guest Add-ons according to the instructions you may get these errors.
When VBOXGUEST.SYS loads on the boot:
Also, when trying load "VBoxService.exe" from Startup.cmd you will get an error that TCPIP32 was not found.
You require to install a fixpack to make that applications work. In this case I installed Fixpack 15.
Installing Additional Driver
Installation ScreenShots
Phase 1
Phase 2
On the next reboot it will install files from the CD-ROM drive. (Virtual ISO image)