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  • Running a BBS on OS/2 VM

    From Marceline Jones@1:103/705 to MARK LEWIS on Sun Mar 14 16:44:00 2021
    easier said than done... OS/2 is not so easily installed in a VM...

    I am thinking about running a BBS on OS/2 on VirtualBox.

    What is the problem with running OS/2 on a VM ?

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Marceline Jones on Sun Mar 14 08:34:09 2021
    Re: Running a BBS on OS/2 VM
    By: Marceline Jones to MARK LEWIS on Sun Mar 14 2021 16:44:00


    easier said than done... OS/2 is not so easily installed in a VM...

    I am thinking about running a BBS on OS/2 on VirtualBox.

    that's fine if virtualbox is ok for you... it isn't for everyone...

    What is the problem with running OS/2 on a VM ?

    nothing IF you can install it... it simply cannot be installed in all VM providers...

    we also know for a fact that some VMs made some changes which explicitly prevented OS/2 from being installed... this back when m$ was a lot more active in causing problems and preventing competition with their products... even
    some DOS command shell replacements ran into similar tactics back in the day... DRDos being one that comes to mind first...


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  • From T.J. Mcmillen@1:229/426 to Marceline Jones on Sun Mar 14 14:08:51 2021
    easier said than done... OS/2 is not so easily installed in a VM...

    I am thinking about running a BBS on OS/2 on VirtualBox.

    What is the problem with running OS/2 on a VM ?

    It's a pain in the ass to get it to install.

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  • From Daniel Path@2:371/52 to T.J. Mcmillen on Sun Mar 14 20:41:22 2021
    Hello T.J..

    14 Mar 21 14:08, you wrote to Marceline Jones:

    easier said than done... OS/2 is not so easily installed in a
    VM...

    I am thinking about running a BBS on OS/2 on VirtualBox.

    What is the problem with running OS/2 on a VM ?

    It's a pain in the ass to get it to install.

    with Oracle Virtualbox its fairly easy. but you are right, i don't know
    any other virtualization which allows OS/2..

    Daniel

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  • From Phillip L Taylor Jr@1:275/201.30 to All on Tue Mar 16 18:40:36 2021
    On Sun 14-Mar-2021 16:44 , Marceline Jones@1:103/705.0 said to Mark Lewis:

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    easier said than done... OS/2 is not so easily installed in a VM...

    I am thinking about running a BBS on OS/2 on VirtualBox.

    What is the problem with running OS/2 on a VM ?


    You might have a issue if you try and use more then a 2 GB partition.
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  • From T.J. Mcmillen@1:229/426 to Phillip L Taylor Jr on Tue Mar 16 22:10:27 2021

    What is the problem with running OS/2 on a VM ?


    You might have a issue if you try and use more then a 2 GB partition.

    No, thats not the issues. I set my partitions to 520 MEG, 16 MEG of ram, etc ... the vm's just don't play well with OS/2's installer. If you get it to install 1 out of 100 tries, it works great. But it usually fails.

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Phillip L Taylor Jr on Wed Mar 17 08:55:18 2021
    Re: Re: Running a BBS on OS/2 VM
    By: Phillip L Taylor Jr to All on Tue Mar 16 2021 18:40:36


    PLTJ> You might have a issue if you try and use more then a 2 GB
    PLTJ> partition.

    this is highly dependent on several factors... it is not set in stone...

    https://www.os2world.com/oldforum/index.php?topic=4750.0

    https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.os2.misc/c/rWQD8Znu0Mg


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