Well the problem with VM ware is that you need special drivers for the guest OS. VM designed their "own" HW. F.i. Videocard, so you can only run an OS which has support for it. With VPC you'll always see an S3 Virge, an Intel NIC, 1 CD. SB16.
The Windows version doesn't virtualise the CPU, it does a preanalysis of the code and can detect problematic code sections which get rewritten on the fly. So as for pure CPU tasks you get to 90-95% of the original CPU speed. What currenly is slow are things liek FileSearch operations. But they new 4.4 version has speedups of up to 30% in this area so they are putting in the 2nd gear now.
VPC runs every version from 1.0 to 4.52. for 4.5 you need VPC 4.2 I think as Connectix had to fix some bugs in their virtualisation though. So you should be fine trying 3 int the MAC version.
Well running OS/2 on "modern" HW is actually more easy than it was 10 years ago when 2.0 came out. The problems then where envolving HW things the CDROMs with lots of prop. interfaces. Today things are much easier and I think OS/2 was one of the first OSes to support >128GB IDE drives. If you want to play 3D games you prob have to look elsewhere but for normal "Office" 2D cards you can swap them even without changing any
drivers. Network card support was never realy a problem and soundcards well there'll be a port of ALSA in the near future.
It's neiter slow nor does it run in 100% emulation mode. But fact is the VMWare has a bad design it doesn't realy inherit to the V in it's name while VPC does. Yes this might steal some performance but with 2Ghz on every desk who cares about 20% perf. los.
The problems VMware had with OS/2 is that OS/2's kernel uses every litle trick in the book that some intel attendum mentioned on page 378 in the fineprint, some of these are even patented. Also keep in mind that even VMware might exist longer on the PC but Connectix has more than 10 years exp
with virtualizing Intel CPUs. And just for the Fun I once installed VPC/2 on OS/2 in it run WinNT in that run VPC/Windows which run OS/2 which did run VPC/2 which did run linux. So their design is rock solid.
And Connectix only needed to fix 2 things they didn't virtualise properly to get OS/2 running. Inital porting it from Windows to OS/2 was done in less then 3 months.
Well I even in the US OS/2 is widely used just under the covers.
Been to Mac Donalds lately? Send something with UPS? Flown with a 747. Used an ATM this week. Benn misfortune and had an exident and
woke up in an extensive care unit of a hospital. As for larger more PC like things
bank of America uses it widely as does Sears or many insurance companies. Those have lot
of legacy apps writen for OS/2, which run their core buisnesses. Now with VPC/2 the have the option to stay on OS/2 and use some new Windows only sw. withot the maintainace cost of a 2nd PC which is what they use at some desks 2day. Or if the Windows soft at one
place is used more often they could migrate to windows and keep using their special software from within VPC/Windows.
Or lower you TCO by remotebooting PXE/RIPL an OS/2 from a central server wich runs VPC
in Fullscreen mode with Windows.
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Well the problem with VM ware is that you need special drivers for the guest OS. VM designed their "own" HW. F.i. Videocard, so you can only run an OS which has support for it. With VPC you'll always see an S3 Virge, an Intel NIC, 1 CD. SB16. The Windows version doesn't virtualise the CPU, it does a preanalysis of the code and can detect problematic code sections which get rewritten on the fly. So as for pure CPU tasks you get to 90-95% of the original CPU speed. What currenly is slow are things liek FileSearch operations. But they new 4.4 version has speedups of up to 30% in this area so they are putting in the 2nd gear now.
VPC runs every version from 1.0 to 4.52.
for 4.5 you need VPC 4.2 I think as Connectix had to fix some bugs in their virtualisation though. So you should be fine trying 3 int the MAC version.
Well running OS/2 on "modern" HW is actually more easy than it was 10 years ago when 2.0 came out. The problems then where envolving HW things the CDROMs with lots of prop. interfaces. Today things are much easier and I think OS/2 was one of the first OSes to support >128GB IDE drives. If you want to play 3D games you prob have to look elsewhere but for normal "Office" 2D cards you can swap them even without changing any drivers. Network card support was never realy a problem and soundcards well there'll be a port of ALSA in the near future.
It's neiter slow nor does it run in 100% emulation mode. But fact is the VMWare has a bad design it doesn't realy inherit to the V in it's name while VPC does. Yes this might steal some performance but with 2Ghz on every desk who cares about 20% perf. los. The problems VMware had with OS/2 is that OS/2's kernel uses every litle trick in the book that some intel attendum mentioned on page 378 in the fineprint, some of these are even patented. Also keep in mind that even VMware might exist longer on the PC but Connectix has more than 10 years exp with virtualizing Intel CPUs. And just for the Fun I once installed VPC/2 on OS/2 in it run WinNT in that run VPC/Windows which run OS/2 which did run VPC/2 which did run linux. So their design is rock solid. And Connectix only needed to fix 2 things they didn't virtualise properly to get OS/2 running. Inital porting it from Windows to OS/2 was done in less then 3 months.
Well I even in the US OS/2 is widely used just under the covers. Been to Mac Donalds lately? Send something with UPS? Flown with a 747. Used an ATM this week. Benn misfortune and had an exident and woke up in an extensive care unit of a hospital. As for larger more PC like things bank of America uses it widely as does Sears or many insurance companies. Those have lot of legacy apps writen for OS/2, which run their core buisnesses. Now with VPC/2 the have the option to stay on OS/2 and use some new Windows only sw. withot the maintainace cost of a 2nd PC which is what they use at some desks 2day. Or if the Windows soft at one place is used more often they could migrate to windows and keep using their special software from within VPC/Windows. Or lower you TCO by remotebooting PXE/RIPL an OS/2 from a central server wich runs VPC in Fullscreen mode with Windows.