VirtualBox

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2VirtualBox for OS/2 OSE Edition ALPHA
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5Version 1.5.51_OSE_27858
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703.02.2008
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10This is an early development build of VirtualBox OSE Edition for OS/2.
11Please backup your data and don't expect everything to be highly polished
12and tuned just yet. If you find a *new* problem, meaning something
13not listed below, please report it at http://forums.virtualbox.org.
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15This package is an official unofficial build of VirtualBox for OS/2.
16It means that it is coordinated by volunteers from Sun Microsystems that
17are still in touch with OS/2 and keep patching VirtualBox at their spare
18time to make sure it runs and more or less works under OS/2.
19
20PLEASE NOTE THAT THE OS/2 HOST (AND THEREFORE THE OS/2 VERSION OF
21VIRTUALBOX) IS NOT OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED BY SUN MICROSYSTEMS! DO NOT
22CONTACT SUN MICROSYSTEMS REGARDING THE OS/2 VERSION OF VIRTUALBOX NO
23MATTER WHAT YOUR QUESTION IS ABOUT! THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING.
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25
26Current Issues / TODOs
27----------------------
28
29* FE/Qt (Qt GUI frontend):
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31 - Mouse pointer shape in mouse integration mode.
32 - NumLock/ScrollLock synchronization.
33 - Seamless mode (no top-level window transparency on OS/2).
34 - Keyboard driver to intercept system key combinations
35 (Alt+Tab etc.)
36
37* Devices:
38
39 - Host Floppy/DVD.
40 - Audio.
41 - Host interface networking.
42 - Internal networking.
43 - USB proxying.
44
45* Misc:
46
47 - Shared clipboard.
48 - Starting more than one VM simultaneously.
49 - Installer.
50 - VMX support.
51 - VBoxSDL (resizing/scaling/keyboard/slowness).
52 - Very slow Resume after Pause in real mode guest applications.
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54Also, please pay attention to the section called "OS/2 Specific Features"
55below.
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57
58How to "Install" and Run
59------------------------
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611. Unpack this archive somewhere.
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632. Make sure you have a dot (.) in your LIBPATH statement in CONFIG.SYS.
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653. Put the following line at the beginning of your CONFIG.SYS
66 and reboot:
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68 DEVICE=<somewhere>\VBoxDrv.sys
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704. Go to <somewhere> and run VirtualBox.exe (Qt GUI frontend).
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725. Note that by default VirtualBox stores all user data in the
73 %HOME%\.VirtualBox directory. If %HOME% is not set, it will use
74 the <boot_drive>:\.VirtualBox directory. In either case, you may
75 overwrite the location of this directory using the VBOX_USER_HOME
76 environment variable.
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786. For best performance, it is recommended to install the VirtualBox
79 Guest Additions to the guest OS. The archive containing the ISO
80 image with Guest Additions for supported guest OSes (Windows,
81 Linux, OS/2) is named
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83 VBoxGuestAdditions_XXXXX.zip
84
85 where XXXXX is the version number (it's best if it matches the version
86 number of this VirtualBox package).
87
88 Download this ZIP from the same location you took this archive from
89 and unpack the contents to the directory containing VirtualBox.exe.
90 After that, you can mount the Additions ISO in the Qt GUI by selecting
91 Devices -> Install Guest Additions... from the menu.
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94Documentation and Support
95-------------------------
96
97Please visit http://www.virtualbox.org where you can find a lot of useful
98information about VirtualBox. There is a Community section where you can
99try to request some help from other OS/2 users of VirtualBox.
100
101You can download the User Manual for the latest official release of
102VirtualBox using this URL:
103
104 http://www.virtualbox.org/download/UserManual.pdf
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107OS/2 Specific Features
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109
110This section describes the features that are specific to the OS/2 version
111of VirtualBox and may be absent in versions for other platforms.
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1131. System key combinations such as Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Esc are currently always
114 grabbed by the host and never reach the guest even when the keyboard
115 is captured. In order to send these combinations to the guest OS, use
116 the following shortcuts (where Host is the host key defined in the
117 global settings dialog):
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119 Host+` (Tilde/Backquote) => Ctrl+Esc
120 Host+1 => Alt+Tab
121 Host+2 => Alt+Shift+Tab
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1232. If you use two or more keyboard layouts on the OS/2 host (e.g. English
124 and Russian), make sure that the keyboard is switched to the English
125 layer when you work in the VirtualBox VM console window. Otherwise, some
126 shortcuts that involve the Host key (in particluar, all Host+<latin_letter>
127 shortcuts like Host+Q) may not work. Please note that the guest keyboard
128 layout has nothing to do with the host layout so you will still be able to
129 switch layouts in the guest using its own means.
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1313. Make sure you do not do 'set LIBPATHSTRICT=T' in the environment you start
132 VirtualBox from: it will make the VirtualBox keyboard hook screw up your
133 host desktop (a workaround is to be found).
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135
136History of Changes
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138
139* 03.02.2008
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141 - Initial release.
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143* XX.XX.XXXX
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145 - Fixed: VirtualBox would hang or crash frequently on SMP machines in
146 ACPI mode.
147
148 - Fixed: VBoxSDL keyboard key event to scan code conversion [contributed
149 by Paul Smedley].
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