As they say, YMMV. I have installed OS/2 on various machines
starting with v2.1 up to Warp 4 and then FP12 always w/o any
difficulties.

Maybe 20 years ago. But try finding such old hardware nowdays. It's
rare even on Ebay. With contemporary hardware, it's not so easy.

I had no problems building a OS/2 Warp 3 virtual machine from the CDROM.
The CDROM emulator under VM Workstation worked fine. One of the big advantages of virtualization is abstracting away the underlying
hardware. I can now move my OS/2 virtual machine to any hardware
machine I want. Right now it's running as 1 of 6 virtual machines on a Windows 2008 R2 server.


Jeff

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I had no problems building a OS/2 Warp 3 virtual machine from the
CDROM. The CDROM emulator under VM Workstation worked fine. One of
the big advantages of virtualization is abstracting away the
underlying hardware. I can now move my OS/2 virtual machine to any
hardware machine I want. Right now it's running as 1 of 6 virtual
machines on a Windows 2008 R2 server.

VMware Workstation is OK for testing and experimentation, but poor for performance. In my experience, Virtualbox is faster. I've got a Windows
2000 VM running on a 64 bit Windows 7 vbox host, and the network speed
is close to the hardware maximum. It never ran that fast with VMware.

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VMware Workstation is OK for testing and experimentation, but poor for ->performance. In my experience, Virtualbox is faster. I've got a Windows ->2000 VM running on a 64 bit Windows 7 vbox host, and the network speed
is close to the hardware maximum. It never ran that fast with VMware.

I've got my eCS 2.2b2 "machine" running under Virtual PC 2007 SP1 without any issues here. Just having some problems with ViaMail now and PX (DOS version), but other than that, everything else runs just fine :)



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I've got my eCS 2.2b2 "machine" running

I wonder if ecs 2.2 will ever get out of beta purgatory. It's been there
a long time, and the ecs web site looks moribund.

under Virtual PC 2007 SP1

What host? 32? 64?

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I wonder if ecs 2.2 will ever get out of beta purgatory. It's been there
a long time, and the ecs web site looks moribund.

*nods* Who knows?

under Virtual PC 2007 SP1

What host? 32? 64?

Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, since the machine I have it on has 16GB of RAM in it.



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Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, since the machine I have it on has
16GB of RAM in it.

That's more memory than all my computers put together. It's a lot more
than IBM mainframes I worked with, many moons ago.

I have a laptop with Windows 7 Home, bought at Walmart on closeout when
they started pushing Windows 8. It's nice for running Virtualbox 64 bit.

But with Windows 7, Microsoft took XP and moved things around to make it
it look new. All that did was make familar things hard to find. It's the
final Microsoft OS I will pay for.

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I have a laptop with Windows 7 Home, bought at Walmart on closeout when ->they started pushing Windows 8. It's nice for running Virtualbox 64 bit.

But with Windows 7, Microsoft took XP and moved things around to make it
it look new. All that did was make familar things hard to find. It's the ->final Microsoft OS I will pay for.

*nods* They changed things around starting with Windows Vista, then just carried some of those changes over to Windows 7. Only difference is Windows 7 actually runs better :) As for the main BBS at winserver.us, I run that on a dedicated 1U server under Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise. It only has 2GB of RAM in it, but at least I can get my doors and all to run on it without any issues :)



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Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, since the machine I have it on has
16GB of RAM in it.

That's more memory than all my computers put together. It's a lot
more than IBM mainframes I worked with, many moons ago.

I have a laptop with Windows 7 Home, bought at Walmart on closeout
when they started pushing Windows 8. It's nice for running Virtualbox
64 bit.

But with Windows 7, Microsoft took XP and moved things around to make
it it look new. All that did was make familar things hard to find.
It's the final Microsoft OS I will pay for.

Here's my setup:

http://www.thebinks.com/jeff/computer/index.html


Jeff

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I had no problems building a OS/2 Warp 3 virtual machine from the
CDROM. The CDROM emulator under VM Workstation worked fine. One
of the big advantages of virtualization is abstracting away the
underlying hardware. I can now move my OS/2 virtual machine to
any hardware machine I want. Right now it's running as 1 of 6
virtual machines on a Windows 2008 R2 server.

VMware Workstation is OK for testing and experimentation, but poor
for performance. In my experience, Virtualbox is faster. I've got a JK>Windows 2000 VM running on a 64 bit Windows 7 vbox host, and the
network speed is close to the hardware maximum. It never ran that
fast with VMware.

You may very well be right. All of the VMs I have running on my 2008 R2
server are low usage VMs so they run fine for my uses. VM Workstation performance has gotten better. If I was really concerned about
performance I'd likely just use a physical machine. All virtualization technology is going to have some overhead.


Jeff

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