On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:56 PM, François Revol <re...@free.fr> wrote: > > Le 12 févr. 2011 à 13:39, Liam Proven a écrit : > >> The only major PC OS I've found that /doesn't/ work is OS/2. However, >> this does work under VMware Player, which is freeware but proprietary. > > You can always sent patches to VirtualBox, it's Free Software :D
:¬) Well, I would, but I am not a programmer and don't know anything newer than a *very* basic knowledge of TurboPascal for MS-DOS 22y ago. I don't care for C or C-like languages and try to avoid them. I believe VirtualBox's software x86 emulation uses Ring 1 of the CPU to run Ring 0 code, which OS/2 does not permit. VMware, on the other hand, runs Ring 0 code through a software interpreter, which works. My CPU - an Athlon64 X2 4600+, the last-ever Socket 939 CPU - does not support hardware virtualisation. The problem that I have probably would not affect a newer CPU with Intel VT or AMD-V. -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
