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SiC

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From: Liverpool, England

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 430

OS 2 Warp

Ok, so I was rummaging around in my drawers the other day, and came accross an OS/2 Warp 4 disc set, I'd completely forgotten I had.  It's now 4:30am, and I've spent HOURS trying to get the damn thing to boot in a VM, and have amost given up, I've tried BOCHS, Qemu, and virtualbox, all to no avail.   When booting from the floppy images it crashes on the second floppy image, and presumably at the same point in the setup routine when booting from the CD, just not getting anywhere. Any ideas?

Slammer64

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From: Ozark Mountains of Missouri

Registered: 2007-07-28

Posts: 113

Re: OS 2 Warp

Last time I heard, only VMWare and VirtualPC could boot and/or install OS/2 Warp stuff. I used to use VirtualPC on the wintendo side of my box to run OS/2 Warp 4.

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dr_te_z

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From: Zoetermeer, the Netherlands

Registered: 2006-12-06

Posts: 154

Re: OS 2 Warp

Forget about VMware. I've got "OS/2 Warp server for e-business"  running as a guest with VirtiualPC on a windows 32 bit host and with Virtualbox on my 64 bit arch host.
I've tried Qemu. Should work, but I am obvoiusly too stupid....

Running OS/2 native on modern iron is only an option when you buy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EComStation. Last time I looked it was approx. EUR 600

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dav7

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 674

Re: OS 2 Warp

Actually, OS/2 uses stuff in Ring 0 of the CPU or some such, so no virtualization engine will be able to run it. A big bank somewhere in the world didn't want to upgrade from OS/2, so they just hired a bunch of hackers to make them a nice VM thingy that would run OS/2.

*poof* Parallels, Inc. is born.

But afaik, QEMU SHOULD still run it.

-dav7

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