Reply 40 of 55, by stamasd
wrote:In all these years, I've never tried OS/2 in a VM for the simple fact that I had no clue on how to install it.
Neither VMWare nor Parallels nor VirtualBox have the "OS/2" in the Operating Systems list and (I didn't know about the fact that I had to make 2 floppies from the batch file in the root of the CD yet) the CD didn't boot for installation.
You can install OS/2 in VMware, but you have to edit the config file (the .vmx that's in the folder where you place the virtual machine files) manually to enable it. It's made like that on purpose because OS/2 is not supported as a guest OS officially. That's because it can be unstable, and VMware didn't want to deal with support requests related to it . In fact they had at one time, around VMware 2.0 a special beta build that supported OS/2 but I guess they had too many bug reports and they didn't want to deal with it, so they removed official support.
To enable installation open the .vmx file in a text editor and add the line
guestOS = "os2"
to it. And remove any other guestOS lines.
(yes it works; I have a virtual machine with OS/2 2.11 and another one with Warp 4.52)
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O