Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody got OS/2 working under linux?

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:32:08PM -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote
> Have you tried VMWare?
> 
> The workstation version has a free 30 day trial (just emerge it).
> 
> Then you can make a VM for OS/2 however you like it, and use the FREE VMWare
> Player to continue indefinitely.
> 
> I suspect VMWare will work flawlessly for you -- it's pretty much the single
> best piece of software ever written. 

  Thanks for making me look deeper.  I had originally looked at the list
of supported guest OS's, didn't see OS/2 there, and assumed the worst.
When I saw your email, I searched the vmware.com site for OS/2, looking
for the official "no such thing" statement to include in my reply.  I
did find some discussions on their forums about people who had
succeeded.  OS/2 is apparently not officially supported, but there are
undocumented parameters in the VMX file like...
GuestOS = "os2experimental"

  It looks like it can be done, depending on the phase of the moon, etc.
This could be interesting.

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