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to: Sean Dennis
from: Jean-Claude Dumas
date: 2014-08-03 22:32:56
subject: OS/2 with VMWARE Workstation

Hi Sean,

 SD> A fair warning about Virtualbox: I had problems with 
 SD> OS/2 under it.  OS/2 uses some archaic and not-fully-
 SD> documented system calls when it boots and from what I 
 SD> understand, VB doesn't emulate them very well or at all.

Yeah, coudn't manage to install either Warp 3 or 4 in VirtualBox. Install
would fail. That's why I thought a bootable CD, *could* make a difference.
After all, I managed to get a vbox vm image of 4.5 which runs fine, so it
is possible to run OS/2. :)




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