Oracle VM VirtualBox

A hybrid PC system emulator that uses both software emulation and hardware virtualisation techniques to emulate/virtualise a modern IBM PC compatible computer. It is available in two versions, a proprietary version published by Oracle that is delivered for Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Mac OSX and Linux and an open source version that lacks a few features but is available on a wider number of platforms.

Compatibility issues

Hardware

• There is no serial port virtualisation, only pass through to real serial ports via the Superchip or USB, this does not make serial port debugging on a single PC impossible, just that you will have to assign VirtualBox a serial port and use a crossover cable to hook that port up physically to another serial port on your PC.

DOS

• There are no Guest Additions available for DOS, you might just as well run your DOS programs from an OS/2 or eComStation guest or host.

Tips

• For installing eComStation 1 and 1.1 on VirtualBox you may need to disable Nested Paging in the "System>Acceleration" tab on the settings pane, this may be needed on eComStation Preview as well. It is usually OK to enable Nested Paging again after the systems have been installed.

Links

• VirtualBox homepage
• VirtualBox forums

Publisher

• Innotek Systemberatung (Original developer)
• Sun Microsystems
• Oracle