Years ago Netware sold these 4.1 dev kits on the cheap, and I picked one up in College. Back then the selling point was that along with Watcom you could actually run Netware 4.1 along with OS/2, and do all the dev loading on the same machine!
What a time saver, not to mention you could simulate a LAN on the same PC as each MS-DOS VM could have it’s own virtual NIC and each VM could login independently.
Anyways, I thought I’d go ahead and give this thing a shot, since I haven’t run this in a while, so I installed OS/2 2.11 on Qemu 0.14.0, and … got this.
Qemu 0.14.0 OS/2 and Netware crash
PNW0162: An internal error has occurred. The program cannot initialize the GDT information.
Which of course is the Global Descriptor Table, and I don’t know why it can’t play with it… Qemu limitation? OS/2?
Anyways afterwards, I get this.
Qemu 0.14.0 OS/2 and Netware trap
Trap 000d
And you thought Windows NT blue screen of death was impossible to read…