Subj : OS/2 under VMware
To   : mark lewis
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Wed Jun 13 2018 18:00:50

Hello mark,

13 Jun 18 12:50 at you wrote to me:

 ml> do you know if it can be run on a QEMU-KVM VM?

I have never tried, to be honest.

 ml> i might have just popped on a way to move my system from hardware to
 ml> VM if it will run under QEMU-KVM... i have been rsyncing it to my main
 ml> linux system... if i install OS/2 into a QEMU-KVM VM and get my rsync
 ml> also installed, then i should be able to simply rsync everything out
 ml> of the backup and reboot and be off to the races... it all depends on
 ml> if i can get it installed in a VM... no clue how to do that using the
 ml> HOST's floppy drive and/or CD... maybe making images and tying them
 ml> into the VM is the way to go??

What I normally do is I use Warp 4.52 (bootable CD) and mount it into the 
blank VM's CD drive.  Usually it works just fine.

I have done it with Virtualbox and VMWare but I have never tried QEMU.

Later,
Sean

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