| VMware support for OS/2 |
VMware is currently working on supporting OS/2 inside a virtual machine and they have some decisions to make. Your feedback would be appreciated. There are many motivations for supporting OS/2 inside a virtual machine instead of native. These include improved device driver support, system administration benefits, and increased security (e.g., from viruses) and privacy, without loss of functionality, network connectivity or file sharing.
If you need OS/2 running native, why is this? While VMware is committed to x86 virtualization, with no partiality to the native operating system or the one running inside the virtual machine, we are not planning to support OS/2 as a native operating system at this time. Please write your comments into the comment box.
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| Do you want VMware supporting OS/2 ? |
| 100% | 754 |
Yes |
| 2.3% | 18 |
No |
| 1.8% | 14 |
I don\'t know |
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| If you were to run OS/2 inside a virtual machine, which native operating system would you expect to run? |
| 78.1% | 312 |
Linux |
| 10.5% | 42 |
Windows NT |
| 6% | 24 |
Windows 2000 |
| 100% | 399 |
only native OS/2 |
| 2.2% | 9 |
none |
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| What version of OS/2 Warp do you plan to run? |
| 3.2% | 24 |
OS/2 Warp 3 |
| 2.7% | 20 |
OS/2 Warp 4 |
| 100% | 740 |
OS/2 Warp 4 with fixpak 5 or newer (could be a requirement !) |
| 0.2% | 2 |
none |
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| Please describe how you install on a new computer (via cd, network, ...) and update your OS/2 system, and how you manage your data (local, fileserver, ...). |
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| Which of the following VMware usage scenarios do you envision adopting? |
| 6.9% | 49 |
Running OS/2 on a virtual disk. |
| 1.2% | 9 |
Running OS/2 installed on a raw disk (not bootable). (read http://www.vmware.com/support/rawdevices.html) |
| 100% | 708 |
Running OS/2 installed on a raw disk (bootable). (read http://www.vmware.com/support/rawdevices.html) |
| 2.8% | 20 |
none |
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