All,

I'm happy to say, I justed installed OS/2 4.5 under VM!


Anybody else running OS/2 in that envirnment? I have a few questions if so Regards,
KrUpTiOn
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10 Jan 19 22:59, Charles Stephenson wrote to All:

I'm happy to say, I justed installed OS/2 4.5 under VM!

Anybody else running OS/2 in that envirnment? I have a few questions if so

I'm running WSEB v4.52 under VMWare. The installation is very old, it was converted from a real computer to VM just a few months ago. :)

'Tommi

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Hello Charles!

Thursday January 10 2019 22:59, you wrote to All:

I'm happy to say, I justed installed OS/2 4.5 under VM!

Congrats! It took me a while to get it up and running with network support :) VirtualBox 6 actually added a lot of nice stuff to OS/2 guest additions.

Anybody else running OS/2 in that envirnment? I have a few questions

I have it running on my home mac, most of the time I use it only for FleetStreet and nostalgia.

Roman

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Hallo Tommi!

11.01.2019 10:11, Tommi Koivula schrieb an Charles Stephenson:

I'm running WSEB v4.52 under VMWare.

Esxi?

The installation is very old, it
was converted from a real computer to VM just a few months ago. :)

How did you 'converted' wseb?

'Tommi

Bye/2 Torsten

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11 Jan 19 16:13, Torsten Bamberg wrote to Tommi Koivula:

I'm running WSEB v4.52 under VMWare.

Esxi?

That was my plan, and it still is. When the old motherbord died, I had to quickly decide what to do. I had a spare mobo, but it was also so old that I decided to go virtual.. So this system is running in vmware workstation now until I have time and hardware to put it in esxi.

The installation is very old, it
was converted from a real computer to VM just a few months ago. :)

How did you 'converted' wseb?

I simply took out the harddisk, put it into usb docking station and converted it to .vmdk disk image. Not much to do after, just to replace the network drivers. Pretty painless operation.

'Tommi

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Hallo Tommi!

11.01.2019 18:28, Tommi Koivula schrieb an Torsten Bamberg:

I'm running WSEB v4.52 under VMWare.

Esxi?

That was my plan, and it still is. When the old motherbord died, I had
to quickly decide what to do. I had a spare mobo, but it was also so
old that I decided to go virtual.. So this system is running in vmware workstation now until I have time and hardware to put it in esxi.

Ah, okay. Some of our r24 nodes running vmware esxi. I do not like this idea, because I have not a (however called 'proper') operatingsystem underneath.

The installation is very old, it
was converted from a real computer to VM just a few months ago.
:)

How did you 'converted' wseb?

I simply took out the harddisk, put it into usb docking station and converted it to .vmdk disk image. Not much to do after, just to
replace the network drivers. Pretty painless operation.

Thanks a lot for the information. What sort of nic-driver do you use with vm-ware workstation? The old intel-nic driver?

'Tommi

Bye/2 Torsten

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Hi Torsten.

11 Jan 19 23:40:24, you wrote to me:

Ah, okay. Some of our r24 nodes running vmware esxi. I do not like this idea, because I have not a (however called 'proper') operatingsystem underneath.

I like the idea of snapshotting. :)

I simply took out the harddisk, put it into usb docking station and
converted it to .vmdk disk image. Not much to do after, just to
replace the network drivers. Pretty painless operation.

Thanks a lot for the information. What sort of nic-driver do you use with vm-ware workstation? The old intel-nic driver?

Old "ibm pci ethernet adapter". That one got autodetected and I had no reason to try any other ones. Yet. :)

'Tommi

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Hallo Tommi!

12.01.2019 10:48, Tommi Koivula schrieb an Torsten Bamberg:

Ah, okay. Some of our r24 nodes running vmware esxi. I do not
like this idea, because I have not a (however called 'proper')
operatingsystem underneath.

I like the idea of snapshotting. :)

<fg> Just take a look at FreeBSD. Snapshots are widely used and very common.
My plan is, to have freebsd as operatingsystem and vmware workstation for virtualization. For this I need a much better board and cpu than now. My ecomstation 2.1 runs on an gigabyte j1900 low energy board. With also very low (cpu) power....

Thanks a lot for the information. What sort of nic-driver do you
use with vm-ware workstation? The old intel-nic driver?

Old "ibm pci ethernet adapter". That one got autodetected and I had no reason to try any other ones. Yet. :)

Nice! Thanks a lot. I'll try it.

'Tommi

Bye/2 Torsten

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Re: OS/2 4.5 (YAY!)
By: Tommi Koivula to Charles Stephenson on Fri Jan 11 2019 10:11 am

Anybody else running OS/2 in that envirnment? I have a few
questions if so

I'm running WSEB v4.52 under VMWare. The installation is very old, it was converted from a real computer to VM just a few months ago. :)

Nice! :)

I am having a 'simple' problem. I can't figure out how to get OUT of full-screen mode. it says press the 'host-f' button (alt or cntrl-f) and I still can't get out of full screen mode. Can't find any settings to do it before booting....

Any ideas?
Regards,
KrUpTiOn
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Re: OS/2 4.5 (YAY!)
By: Roman Litvinenko to Charles Stephenson on Fri Jan 11 2019 09:33 am

Congrats! It took me a while to get it up and running with network

support

:) VirtualBox 6 actually added a lot of nice stuff to OS/2 guest additions.

It's my first time using VirtualBox 6, it's awesome! I'm gonna install MacOS next after I set up OS/2!

I have it running on my home mac, most of the time I use it only for FleetStreet and nostalgia.

Nice! I wanna play around with a few OS/2 BBS programs just for the hell of it!
Regards,
KrUpTiOn
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Torsten Bamberg <2:240/5832> wrote:

<fg> Just take a look at FreeBSD. Snapshots are widely used and very

common.

My plan is, to have freebsd as operatingsystem and vmware workstation

I can change my plans. You never know... ;D

for virtualization. For this I need a much better board and cpu than
now. My ecomstation 2.1 runs on an gigabyte j1900 low energy board. With also very low (cpu) power....

That's much newer than the mobo my OS/2 was running. (Aopen MK77M II with Athlon XP) ;)

'Tommi

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Charles Stephenson <1:226/17> wrote:

I'm running WSEB v4.52 under VMWare. The installation is very old, it

was

converted from a real computer to VM just a few months ago. :)

Nice! :)

I am having a 'simple' problem. I can't figure out how to get OUT of full-screen mode. it says press the 'host-f' button (alt or cntrl-f) and I still can't get out of full screen mode. Can't find any settings to do it before booting....

Crtl-Alt-Enter in vmware workstation, but if you're using virtualbox... I don't have virtualbox around. ;(

'Tommi

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Hi! Tommi,

On 13 Jan 19 13:35, you wrote to Charles Stephenson:

I am having a 'simple' problem. I can't figure out how to get OUT
of full-screen mode. it says press the 'host-f' button (alt or
cntrl-f) and I still can't get out of full screen mode. Can't find
any settings to do it before booting....

Crtl-Alt-Enter in vmware workstation, but if you're using
virtualbox... I don't have virtualbox around. ;(

His designated 'host' key ought to work with an "F" keypress, to toggle full screen on/off. (There again, I'm still using vBox v5.2.22 on my Xubuntu 32-bit host. Will upgrade my other Xubuntu 64-bit host to vBox 6.xx tomorrah or day after,) This may be a dirty word around these here parts, but I prefer working with 'windows' rather than full screen. ;)

Cheers,
Paul.

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Hi Paul.

13 Jan 19 22:21, you wrote to me:

This may be a dirty word around these here parts, but I prefer working with 'windows' rather than full screen. ;)

:D

'Tommi

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Hello Charles!

Sunday January 13 2019 06:04, you wrote to me:

Congrats! It took me a while to get it up and running with
network support
:) VirtualBox 6 actually added a lot of nice stuff to OS/2 guest
additions.

It's my first time using VirtualBox 6, it's awesome! I'm gonna
install MacOS next after I set up OS/2!

If you're going to install MacOS on a PC host you will need some tricks.
In the end, I wasn't satisfied with the overall performance of MacOS running in
VBox.

I have it running on my home mac, most of the time I use it only
for FleetStreet and nostalgia.

Nice! I wanna play around with a few OS/2 BBS programs just for the
hell of it! Regards, KrUpTiOn

Don't forget to make a few snapshots to roll back easy, just in case :)

Roman

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