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On 8/20/22 12:30 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> Long-story-short; I run ArcaOS (backwards compatable OS/2 successor) |
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> as a guest on QEMU on my desktop. |
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Aside: Is ArcaOS really a different version of OS/2? Or is it still |
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4.x with patches and updated drivers? I saw extremely little |
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difference, other than eye candy / included open source packages, |
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between IBM OS/2 Warp 4.5x, eComm Server, and ArcaOS. |
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Further Aside: I run anything in the above to be able to drive my |
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P/390-E PCI card. |
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> The Lenovo Thinkpad has the "vmx" cpu flag, so QEMU is theoretically |
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> doable. But the mouse is extremely flakey, to the point of |
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> unusability, under QEMU on the Thinkpad. I've tried various tweaks, |
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> but no luck. I "asked Mr. Google", but only found other people with |
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> the same problem... and no solution. |
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This sounds extremely reminiscent of guest OS driver / utility |
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integration, or rather the lack there of, when running OS/2 et al. in VM. |
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> Are there any booby-traps to watch out for? What I'm most concerned |
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> about is the default "qt5" USE flag. Is VirtualBox usable without |
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> the qt5 GUI? |
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I've not fond much effective difference in the various hyper visors, |
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save for driver / guest OS additions / integration maturity level. |
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Sure, different hyper visors have varying maturity levels of the |
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management utilities. But I've gotten all of them to do what I want. I |
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prefer VirtualBox on stand alone workstation for lab / play thing and |
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VMware's (free) ESXi on my server for things I want running months at a |
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time (read: to continue running when I reboot my workstation to change |
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kernels). |
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I assume that since you're running ArcaOS, that you have support from |
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Arca Noae. As such, I'd open a support ticket with them and ask about |
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guest add-ons for various hyper visors. |
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I don't know the current state of 3rd party guest add-ons for OS/2 / eCS |
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/ ArcaOS under VirtualBox. Hopefully they've improved since the last |
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time I looked. |
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Surprisingly enough, I think the best integration that I ever saw was |
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under an *OLD* version of Microsoft's Virtual PC / Virtual Server / |
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Hyper-V. Back when they still supported OS/2 as a guest OS in an |
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official capacity. Perhaps you can run an old version thereof or |
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extract the guest add-ons therefrom and use them elsewhere. |
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Grant. . . . |
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