More How To Install Os/2 Warp 4 On Virtualbox videos. Apr 01, 2017 Install & Configure IBM OS/2 Warp 4.52 Using. Install & Configure MS-DOS 6.22 & Windows 3.1 using Oracle VirtualBox Install & Configure Windows 95.

I’ve recently been consumed with getting OS/2 Warp 4 running in Oracle Virtualbox. I know you’re asking yourself “why?” And I ask myself that same question sometimes. But OS/2 was my first real multitasking OS. It was the first real OS that I had a real job working on, so it kind of has some sentimentality. Is that a word? Anyway, I want to get it working.

My OS/2 Mission: • Install OS/2 on Virtualbox under Windows 7 (or 8.1) • Change video Resolution to widescreen • Get Firefox for OS/2 to work Actually getting it working wasn’t the hard part. It’s actually fairly straight forward. I also was able to get my screen resolution to use wide screen/ This was achieved by running the Virtualbox Vboxmanage command: C: Program Files Oracle VirtualBox>Vboxmanage setextradata “OS/2 Warp 4” “CustomVideoMode1” “1920x1080x16” The hard part, at least for me is trying to get Firefox for OS/2 working. So far I have not had any success. I got Opera for OS/2 working.

That was easy and straight forward. But Opera for OS/2 is old and worthless now. If I can get Firefox working on OS/2 my third stage of progress will be complete.

Solution Make images of the three floppy disks using your USB floppy drive. I really don't know what tool to use to make them in Parallels image format, just that you'll need them to be so. Then, mount the image from disk 0 and boot the VM from that.

Change the image mounted on the floppy drive in the VM to disk 1 and then disk 2 as the boot progresses. You'll eventually end up back with disk 0 mounted and all the files actually installed from CD. The images for the boot disks are on the CD and there is a bisex (DOS and OS/2) application for writing the images. So, perhaps the easiest way to get those into the Parallels image format would be to boot up your Windows VM, mount the CD, then use the tool on the CD to write out each disk image to the emulated floppy, changing out the image for the VM floppy between each. Then you should be able to use those to boot the VM you are going to install OS/2 on.

Alternatively, you could try a bootable CD image. OS/2 CDs became bootable later in life. IIRC, Convenience Packs 1 and 2 are bootable. You can also make your own bootable CD with some work.

Ultramixer 3 Serial Codes Generator. You can even build in a FixPak to the custom boot CD wit the right tools, except the right tools run in OS/2 only.