Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 00:04:20 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 382 ************************************************** Thursday 20 May 2004 Number 382 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: FreeBSD under OS/2 : Jon Saxton" 2 Re: FreeBSD under OS/2 : Stefan.Neis at t-online.de 3 Re: FreeBSD under OS/2 : Jon Saxton" 4 Re: FreeBSD under OS/2 : Steven Levine" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 12:36:07 -0400 From: "Jon Saxton" Subject: Re: FreeBSD under OS/2 ** Reply to note from "Jon Saxton" on Wed, 19 May 2004 11:50:00 -0400 FYI I was able to get SVISTA to boot from an .iso file. Must have done something right for a change. -- Jon Saxton Developer of cross-platform software for UNIX, Windows and OS/2 U.S. agent for Triton Technologies International Ltd http://www.triton.vg/ **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 16:42:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan.Neis at t-online.de Subject: Re: FreeBSD under OS/2 John Poltorak schrieb: > Does anyone know if I can run FreeBSD under > OS/2 using SVISTA? How can one obtain SVISTA? Does anyone know, how it does compare to Virtual PC? Particularly COM and USB support would be interesting for me ... Regards, Stefan **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:50:00 -0400 From: "Jon Saxton" Subject: Re: FreeBSD under OS/2 ** Reply to note from Stefan.Neis at t-online.de on Wed, 19 May 2004 16:42:44 +0200 (CEST) > How can one obtain SVISTA? > Does anyone know, how it does compare to > Virtual PC? Particularly COM and USB support > would be interesting for me ... I was lucky/astute/stupid enough to buy the last version of Virtual PC for OS/2 before it was purchased/killed by MicroSoft. Fantastic product. Works beautifully for me in an environment where I need to run a Windows-only VPC client but all my software was written and tested on OS/2. I haven't even looked at COM ports and the USB support is limited to that supplied by the host operating system, which on OS/2 means that the guest system can read my USB DVD drive but not write to it. SVISTA is currently in beta and you can join the evaluation project via www.ecomstation.com. SVISTA does offer the ability to boot from CD but so far I haven't been able to make it boot from an .iso image (which for me would be even better). VirtualPC does allow that. I think SVISTA has a way to go before being a viable commercial product. Nevertheless, it promises to be a viable alternative to the no-longer-available VirtualPC for OS/2. -- Jon Saxton Developer of cross-platform software for UNIX, Windows and OS/2 U.S. agent for Triton Technologies International Ltd http://www.triton.vg/ **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 08:54:21 -0700 From: "Steven Levine" Subject: Re: FreeBSD under OS/2 In <1084977663.40ab71ffc0601 at modem.webmail.t-online.de>, on 05/19/04 at 04:42 PM, Stefan.Neis at t-online.de said: >How can one obtain SVISTA? Click on the news items for details. >Does anyone know, how it does compare to >Virtual PC? Particularly COM and USB support >would be interesting for me ... The SVISTA product is based on the twoostwo technology which has been around for a couple of years. The OS/2 host is in beta. Regards, Steven -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Steven Levine" MR2/ICE 2.41 #10183 Warp4/FP15/14.093c_W4 www.scoug.com irc.webbnet.info irc.fyrelizard.org #scoug (Wed 7pm PST) ----------------------------------------------------------------------