Hi all, as far as I remember OS/2 as guest is supported by VirtualBox only with active hardware virtualization, for example Intel VMX. See VBoManage on how to enable VMX. Of course, your host must have VMX support.
Kind regards, Frank On Tuesday 23 January 2007 11:44, Michael Thayer wrote: > Hello Robin and Jan, > > Try the following: > > * Set up the VM using the VirtualBox Qt GUI, including selecting the > installation CD image > * Start the VM from the commandline (substitute the correct VM name for > "VM name") using the command: > > VBoxSDL -startvm "VM name" -nopatm -nocsam -norawr3 -norawr0 > > You can experiment with leaving off various of the -no* options. These > are all switches which turn off advanced virtualisation features which > can cause problems with "tricky" guests. > > Regards, > > Michael > > Robin Klitscher wrote: > > Using openSuSE 10.2 as host I've been trying to install various flavours > > of OS/2 as guest in VBox, without success. > > > > With eCS 1.2GA the VBox VM starts OK, finds the CDROM install media, and > > begins to boot from it using the default values. The "diskettes" load > > into memory disk and the boot splash shows briefly, followed immediately > > by a Trap E. Alternatively I can start the boot using the "Boot with > > menu for own values" option, but I can't find anything obvious in there > > that would account for the trap. I've tried various things in the "own > > value" screens, but to no avail - when I continue the boot I still get > > the trap E. > > > > With eCS 1.2 Refresh the behaviour is similar, except that instead of > > the trap it just stalls at the boot eCS splash screen, with sligthly > > corrupted video. > > > > With Warp 4.51 MCP, I get much the same as with eCS 1.2 Refresh. > > > > Before I go any further it would be useful to know if anyone has > > succeeded in getting any flavour of OS/2 - eCS installed into the VBox > > VM running in Linux (or any other host OS for that matter)??? > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users -- ## InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, http://www.innotek.de ##
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