off topic : Parallels alternative : VirtualBox

Pierre Sahores psahores at free.fr
Mon Jul 28 10:26:51 EDT 2008


Bernard,

OS/2, its OO UI, its file-system design,... ;-)
--
Pierre Sahores
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www.sahores-conseil.com


Le 28 juil. 08 à 15:14, Bernard Devlin a écrit :

> Hi Pierre, I too can recommend VirtualBox.  A few months ago I had a
> customized version of CentOS I needed to use for some application  
> testing,
> and after I failed to get it to work after installing it in  
> VirtualPC and
> VMWare, I turned to VirtualBox... absolutely no problems there.
>
> Innotek (the company that Sun bought VirtualBox from), was a major  
> ISV and
> supporter of OS/2 back in the day.  Hard to believe that 16 years  
> ago there
> was a desktop OS that had pre-emptive multi-tasking and a user- 
> programmable
> OO UI that would run on a 486 with 4mb of RAM, and that could run  
> almost all
> existing DOS and Windows 3.1 apps inside "Virtual Dos Machines".  OS/ 
> 2 was
> probably the first desktop OS to be able to run virtualized operating
> systems.
>
> My new Vista laptop can't even unzip files properly (I had to  
> download the
> old file manager I used to use on NT4 and OS/2 in order to unzip  
> files on
> Vista).
>
> Bernard
> Certified OS/2 Engineer
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Pierre Sahores <psahores at free.fr>  
> wrote:
>
>> Hello There,
>>
>> Just a quick note to recommand Sun's VirtualBox instead of  
>> Parallels 3.xx
>> i'm no more happy with...
>>
>> Lots more stable and fast ; able to run natively VMWare VMDK  
>> partitions ;
>> free and commercial versions ;-)
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> --
>> Pierre Sahores
>> mobile : 06 03 95 77 70
>> www.sahores-conseil.com
>>
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