all the possibilities for emulation/virtualization under fedora?
Erik P. Olsen
erik at epo.dk
Sat Jan 19 23:06:15 UTC 2008
John Summerfield wrote:
> 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.
Thanks, I'll take a look at them.
>
> Microsoft's Virtual PC allows one to choose an OS/2 profile, much to my
> astonishment. Of course, that might mean Microsoft OS/2.
>
>
This is really strange. Microsoft purchased its Virtual PC from Innotek and that
version was capable of running OS/2 as guest without requiring AMD-V. Now
Innotek is back in business with a new virtual PC program which requires AMD-V!
--
Erik.
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