Anyone have experience installing OS/2 in a virtual machine? \ VOGONS

Anyone have experience installing OS/2 in a virtual machine?

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First post, by snorg

Posted on 2014-12-12, 23:04

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I've got Warp 4 that I'm trying to install in a vm. I was able to attach a USB floppy to the VM, and it sees the floppy install disk (from my recollection, you have to do some fussing about with 2-3 floppies before you can start a CD install).

However, after the initial floppy, it hangs on the subsequent floppies. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

Reply 1 of 3, by NJRoadfan

Posted on 2014-12-13, 04:33

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Yes, I have done it with eComstation. It worked best on Virtual PC 7, which even had integration drivers for it. Warp 4.52 (MCP2) is likely better behaved than the original 1996 release of Warp 4.0. The IDE drivers in particular have issues. eComstation fixed the problem using the "Danis" IDE driver. Take a look here for some hints.

http://www.elstel.org/OS2Warp/InstallUpdate.html

Reply 2 of 3, by kixs

Posted on 2014-12-13, 05:26

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I had no problem instaling it on Virtual PC 2004.

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Reply 3 of 3, by snorg

Posted on 2014-12-13, 19:07

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I found a bunch of good info, I'm going to try again with Virtualbox and if I can't get it working there I will use Virtual PC. I will post the other links I found later in case anyone is interested.

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