Any luck with eCS and VirtualBox?

http://www.virtualbox.org

I couldn't get eCS 1.2MR to install under VirtualBox at all.  Of course 
I don't have VT-x hardware but I was surprised that the install failed 
at the initial splash screen, freezing the VM altogether.

Jon Saxton wrote:
> http://www.virtualbox.org
> 
> I couldn't get eCS 1.2MR to install under VirtualBox at all.  Of course 
> I don't have VT-x hardware but I was surprised that the install failed 
> at the initial splash screen, freezing the VM altogether.
> 
> Has anyone else tried?  Any success?

For me it does not work. Have tried various boot options but got as far 
as you did.

In article <c1.2b8.371Jxy$01A@news.ecomstation.com>,
Jon Saxton <ecsu@triton.vg> wrote:

 >http://www.virtualbox.org
 >
 >I couldn't get eCS 1.2MR to install under VirtualBox at all.  Of course
 >I don't have VT-x hardware but I was surprised that the install failed
 >at the initial splash screen, freezing the VM altogether.
 >
 >Has anyone else tried?  Any success?

VirtualBox documentation states that you need hardware virtualization
support in order to install OS/2 - eCS

I have a core 2 duo PC and tried to install eCS 1.1 and eCS 2 beta 4,
but both failed with the same resource.sys trap I get when I try with
real hardware (on the same machine)

AFAIK eCS 2 rc2 should have solved the resource.sys problem unfortunately
I have not downloaded it, so had no chance to try

I succeeded anyway in booting a command line environment I created with
Bootable (resource.sys is required only on the installation environment)

you might try the following:
-1) install eCS on new hardware
-2) zip the new installation (zip -rq9ST$)
-3) create a bootable CD with Bootable ensuring it contains all the
    files used by LVM.EXE, SYSINSTX.EXE, UNZIP.EXE and the zip file
    of the eCS installation
-4) make VirtualBox boot from the ISO file created via Bootable
-5) run LVM to create a volume on the virtual hard disk, format it,
    unzip the packed installation and run SYSINSTX X: (where X: is
    the installation drive letter)

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Alessandro Cantatore schrieb:
> In article <c1.2b8.371Jxy$01A@news.ecomstation.com>,
> Jon Saxton <ecsu@triton.vg> wrote:
> 
>  >http://www.virtualbox.org
>  >
>  >I couldn't get eCS 1.2MR to install under VirtualBox at all.  Of
course
>  >I don't have VT-x hardware but I was surprised that the install
failed
>  >at the initial splash screen, freezing the VM altogether.
>  >
>  >Has anyone else tried?  Any success?
> 
> VirtualBox documentation states that you need hardware virtualization
> support in order to install OS/2 - eCS
> 
> I have a core 2 duo PC and tried to install eCS 1.1 and eCS 2 beta 4,
> but both failed with the same resource.sys trap I get when I try with
> real hardware (on the same machine)
> 
> AFAIK eCS 2 rc2 should have solved the resource.sys problem unfortunately
> I have not downloaded it, so had no chance to try
> 
> I succeeded anyway in booting a command line environment I created with
> Bootable (resource.sys is required only on the installation environment)
> 
> you might try the following:
> -1) install eCS on new hardware
> -2) zip the new installation (zip -rq9ST$)
> -3) create a bootable CD with Bootable ensuring it contains all the
>     files used by LVM.EXE, SYSINSTX.EXE, UNZIP.EXE and the zip file
>     of the eCS installation
> -4) make VirtualBox boot from the ISO file created via Bootable
> -5) run LVM to create a volume on the virtual hard disk, format it,
>     unzip the packed installation and run SYSINSTX X: (where X: is
>     the installation drive letter)
> 
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> bye
> Alessandro
 From what I read in other forums, only MCP2 installs in VBox till now. Nobody 
seems to know what's the difference which make >eCS1.1 fail to install.

In article <c1.2b8.376hK4$01A@news.ecomstation.com>,
Andreas Buchinger <andreas.buchinger@gmx.net> wrote:

 > From what I read in other forums, only MCP2 installs in VBox till now.
Nobody
 >seems to know what's the difference which make >eCS1.1 fail to install.

as I already wrote I get a RESOURCE.SYS trap
a bootable CD iso created with Bootable boots without problems

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