SCO Unix emulator

[bill]

NoOp wrote:
> 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

Worth a try.  Thanks

-- 
Bill Drescher
william {at} TechServSys {dot} com

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