SCO Unix emulator

[NoOp]

On 07/03/2009 12:24 PM, Han Pilmeyer wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 20:39 +0200, Odd wrote:
> 
>> bill wrote:
>> > Han Pilmeyer wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 06:44 -0400, bill wrote:
>> >>> I am between a rock and a hard place.  I have two legacy systems 
>> >>> running SCO UNIX v5.0 and DataFlex.  I am in the midst of rewriting 
>> >>> the systems in HTML/PHP/SQL, but am afraid that the hardware (pentium 
>> >>> II machines) will die before I finish, which would be a very bad 
>> >>> thing.  I don't know if it is possible to get a DataFlex for Linux 
>> >>> and it probably is not worth the money if possible.
>> >>>
>> >>> Is there a SCO UNIX emulator available for Ubuntu ?
>> >> Note sure about an emulator, but have you tried running them in a 
>> >> virtualbox?
>> >>
>> > SCO is not on the list of supported Guest OSs
> 
> 
> That is probably just an indication that the guest additions are not
> available and that it is not formally supported. Not having the guest
> additions will make the graphics slower (in case you're using a
> graphical desktop), the mouse will not be as fast as it could be and you
> won't be able to share folders with the host. I'm not sure whether you
> need an officially supported version, but it would be fairly simple to
> test whether it works. Since it supports guests ranging from DOS to the
> latest Linux and Windows version, I would estimate that there is a
> reasonable chance that it will work with SCO UNIX as well.


http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes

It's recommended to go with VMWare instead.
<http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=6246&sid=57554c4c05c8c4a9de1b0265210c5f7e>

<http://www.sco.com/products/unix/virtualization/faq.html>

But, others have reported that 5 seems to run just fine:
<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7500263>
so it might be worth a try. Plus, if you do go the vmware route & later
decide to change, VirtualBox is capable of using VMDK containers formats
used by VMWare.