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Having a new host is always a good addition ! Congratulations !
But - I believe, first the new Virtualbox for OS/2 must be officially released, and available for download at:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
-Technologov
But - I believe, first the new Virtualbox for OS/2 must be officially released, and available for download at:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
-Technologov
Well there are some unofficial OS/2 builds available from http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/index. ... virtualboxTechnologov wrote:Having a new host is always a good addition ! Congratulations !
But - I believe, first the new Virtualbox for OS/2 must be officially released, and available for download at:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
-Technologov
Cheers,
Paul.
Hopefully, this means an OS/2 host
Hopefully, this means that there will be an official OS/2 host which supports networking and USB. I'll be looking forward to this.
cytan
cytan
Technologov
I don't think there will ever be official builds of VirtualBox for OS/2 -- OS/2 is not among officially supported hosts and will never be (it means no guaranteed release schedule, no guaranteed set of features, no support from innotek itself, etc.).
However, there are official unofficial builds that are currently hosted at ftp://ftp.dmik.org/pub/common/vbox . "Official unofficial" means that these builds (as opposed to e.g. Paul Smedley's builds) are maintained by volunteers from innotek that still have some interest in playing with OS/2 at their spare time. Just to make it clear.
Also note that unofficial builds are always OSE builds. Full-featured closed-source binary builds are not possible because they would have to be officially released and supported by innotek.
cytan299
NAT networking already works, the rest (including USB support) depends more on contributors I'd say now.
I don't think there will ever be official builds of VirtualBox for OS/2 -- OS/2 is not among officially supported hosts and will never be (it means no guaranteed release schedule, no guaranteed set of features, no support from innotek itself, etc.).
However, there are official unofficial builds that are currently hosted at ftp://ftp.dmik.org/pub/common/vbox . "Official unofficial" means that these builds (as opposed to e.g. Paul Smedley's builds) are maintained by volunteers from innotek that still have some interest in playing with OS/2 at their spare time. Just to make it clear.
Also note that unofficial builds are always OSE builds. Full-featured closed-source binary builds are not possible because they would have to be officially released and supported by innotek.
cytan299
NAT networking already works, the rest (including USB support) depends more on contributors I'd say now.
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Re: OS/2
the Readme of Pauls package says:stanley wrote:What would you need to have on an OS/2 system to run an OSE version?
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Readme for VirtualBox for OS/2 and eComStation v 1.54_OSE
FIRST: Goto http://virtualbox.org
and read all documentation, so you have a clue...
NEXT: Now that you think you have a clue, download the manual:
http://virtualbox.org/download/1.5.4/UserManual.pdf
and read it !
This is a first quick and dirty - and absolutely UNofficial
release of VirtualBox for OS/2 and eComStation.
Official versions will be available from Virtualbox.org
This version is a development snapshot - as in "todays" state.
This is NOT GA quality code - this is (pre-)beta code !!!
This software might hang your system, and trash your HD's !!!
Now, you have been warned !!
If you have any problems, please download the source, and fix
the problem yourself - and send the fix to Virtualbox people
Stuff needed to run Vbox:
libc063.dll -> ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/libc/libc-0_6_3-csd3.exe
Snap, Panorama or Gengradd (SNAP mode or Dive mode)
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And on my T60 with eCS 2.0rc1 or rc4 with latest ACPI, SMP and Panorama both versions from 2008 are working - the one from today also with NAT networking!
BTW: the GUI VirtualBox also starts with this version on my T60, but I did not made any tests with this right now.
But before I can replace my VPC/2 with VBox/2 I need some more things like:
- save/resume of running sessions
- running several VMs simultanously
- support for physical floppy and CD/DVD
- support for COM, LPT and USB
- changing screenresolution of WinXP-guests on the fly
- simple audio-support
- support for OS/2-guest on OS/2-host
But anyway I'm very happy that there is a very cool replacement for VPC/2 on the horizon, on Linux and Windows VBox already is a much better solution for client-virtualisation (for server-virtualisation I use Xen).
And hopefully they also will get a more up-to-date host-version for MacOS X, because VBox, at least on Windows is a much better solution than f.ex. Parallels!
Thanks to Innotek for this great software and thanks to Paul for compiling it for OS/2
Thorolf
Re: OS/2
Hi,
thanks to dmik and his small fix, the VirtualBox-gui now also runs on my T60 with SMP
That means that these issues are solved:
- save/resume of running sessions
- running several VMs simultanously
- changing screenresolution of WinXP-guests on the fly
Thanks a lot,
Thorolf
thanks to dmik and his small fix, the VirtualBox-gui now also runs on my T60 with SMP
That means that these issues are solved:
- save/resume of running sessions
- running several VMs simultanously
- changing screenresolution of WinXP-guests on the fly
Thanks a lot,
Thorolf