Install Os 2 Warp 4 Vmware

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Well the good news is that it works… mostly.

The install is SUPER tedious through the console with mounting and ejecting diskettes. But I was able to do all of that from the comfort of my home on a VPS that does VMWare, enscloud.com.

Install Os 2 Warp 4 Vmware

The great thing about OS/2 is that IBMINT13.I13 driver. I’m pretty sure trying to find a suitably old “LSI Logic SAS” driver may be quite difficult, but as long as the adapter does good old interrupt 13 services, OS/2 can drive it.

  1. JP Subject: Re: OS/2 Warp 4 in VMware BTW, this is really a bad group for real OS/2 questions, because all real users have fled a long time ago, due to a lot of trolls in here, so.
  2. OS/2 Warp 4 Under VMware Workstation 5.5.3 I tested VMware installing the OS/2 Warp 4.0 as a guest Operating System. I created a new virtual machine and selected 'Other OS'.Then I had to prepare the booting Floppy Disk, because the OS/2 Installation CDROM is not bootable but in the cd there is a directory called.
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Lore in these parts is that I ran OS/2 for a long time in college and management got wind of that and asked if I could get OS/2 up and running in VMWare. Which - I did (Didn't get around to installing the fix packs or getting the networking setup). I know VMWare can support NT 4. But that importing options are quite limited for both of these. Jun 04, 2009 Anyway, here is how I got OS/2 Warp 4 installed into a virtual machine using VMware Player. I first downloaded VMware Player, then I downloaded OS/2 Warp 4, because my OS/2 Warp copy is damaged and no longer works for some reason, and I gave up on it long ago.

So with OS/2 2.0 installed, then updated, and TCP/IP installed I thought things would work as there actually is e1000 drivers floating around for OS/2…. Except all I get is a trap and death.

From some minor googling around it seems it’s a known issue, with no current fix.

So close, and yet so far away

Install Os 2 Warp 4 Vmware

Oh well.

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** UPDATE in all likely hood all that is required is the unofficial update XR_B108, for OS/2 2.1 which apparently works with networking on VMware Player.