On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > BTW, thanks, good to know about latest VirtualBox license, I hadn't > checked closely on the (very recent) 4.x yet. I just knew about old > compiles by gNewSense, and since they're pretty strict, I assumed > theirs would be suitable (at least in a pinch) for Jim's business use. > > (continued below) > > On 2/12/11, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > There are several dialects of Pascals for DOS. And don't forget > Modula-2, Modula-3, Oberon. Unfortunately, most are abandoned. But > yeah, I agree, C is weird. Nevertheless, the FreeDOS kernel uses it. > (VirtualBox probably uses C++, but I forget exactly.)
True, but it does mean I can't really usefully contribute code to anything... >> 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. > > I also noticed in the past that eComStation 1.2 demo didn't run, but > they don't even seem to offer than online anymore (esp. since 2.0 was > finalized), so I can't test again. I think Wikipedia claims it's due > to pervasive use of ring 2 by OS/2. Answered (mistakenly) elsewhere - yes, I think this is right. >> 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. > > My new Intel laptop doesn't have it either. I think they are more > stingy than AMD in putting it on their chips. It definitely makes > VirtualBox more painful without it (e.g. latest Fedora, which I tried > last night, annoying). My old (2007) AMD laptop had it and ran fine, > but that one (and bro's similar AMD one from different OEM) died (PSU? > overheated?). Oh well, you can't have everything. Yes, indeed. It's a nuisance. -- 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
