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 Message 2440 
 Jean-Claude Dumas to Sean Dennis 
 OS/2 with VMWARE Workstation 
 03 Aug 14 22:32:56 
 
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. :)




--- Maximus/2 3.01
 * Origin: Modes tm II (modestm.ddns.net) (1:249/204)

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