all the possibilities for emulation/virtualization under fedora?

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sat Jan 19 22:49:11 UTC 2008


Erik P. Olsen wrote:

> I have the need to run the ancient OS/2 system once or twice a year due 
> to business obligations and for that purpose I have such a system 
> installed. It would be nice to have a virtual machine for that purpose 
> but I haven't been able to find one which would do the job. VMware 
> specifically states that they do not support it and VirtualBox (Innotek) 
> requires cpus with AMD-V or similar support.

Xen and KVM should both do it, with HV. Apparently the others play funny 
bees with the object code.

Microsoft's Virtual PC allows one to choose an OS/2 profile, much to my 
astonishment. Of course, that might mean Microsoft OS/2.


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Cheers
John

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