Comments on: Fun with OpenServer 6 and MergePro https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/11/21/fun-with-openserver-6-and-mergepro/ Fun with Virtualization Wed, 12 Jan 2022 20:07:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Larkin https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/11/21/fun-with-openserver-6-and-mergepro/comment-page-1/#comment-295171 Sat, 08 Jan 2022 20:52:40 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10662#comment-295171 If instead of calling `loadwinproCD` you do something like `installwinpro -c /dev/cdrom/cdrom1 -w winxppro` it won’t check what’s on the media and will instead just boot off of the media. Through this, I successfully installed Windows XP SP3 and it worked fine. I’ve also tried the latest NetBSD and OpenBSD, but both had issues (they’d install, but didn’t really work properly afterwards). For fun, I’m trying Solaris 10 now.

]]> By: Name https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/11/21/fun-with-openserver-6-and-mergepro/comment-page-1/#comment-270167 Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:20:09 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10662#comment-270167 How did you get the license for 6 Definitive 2018? Brandy doesn’t seem to like anything in the 5 Definitive 2018 ISO.

]]> By: raijinkai https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/11/21/fun-with-openserver-6-and-mergepro/comment-page-1/#comment-259307 Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:42:50 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10662#comment-259307 In reply to Uli.

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/openserver6/600/other/mergepro.6.0f/Users-Guide.html

“integrated: this mode makes the Administrator/Owner user account on Windows live as a “roaming profile”, so that user settings (as well as documents) are stored on the UNIX filesystem instead of inside the GUEST.IMG image file. This is the default mode for new Windows 2000 installations.
NOTE: To ensure the best possible user experience, do not select integrated mode for Windows XP.”

This explains the profile folder outside the guest image. But the rest of the system still resides in the winhdd.pro, as expected.

“To install a guest session, login as a non-root user and use the following command:

installwinpro [-d ] [-w ] [-g ] [-m ]
…
guest-image-size defaults to “2038M”, or just under 2 gigabytes. You may specify a size up to 64 gigabytes, which will be used to hold the Windows session’s system and program files (C: drive). User Documents and Settings are stored directly on the UNIX filesystem and the storage size is limited only by the available disk space in your user home directory. ”

NT can’t really be “merged” with Unix FS as happens with Win9x. The way NT access it is just too different how Win9X does. Fortunately it doesn’t require an extra partition as Netware for OS/2 does.

]]> By: Uli https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/11/21/fun-with-openserver-6-and-mergepro/comment-page-1/#comment-259294 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:48:14 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10662#comment-259294 In reply to raijinkai.

Just take a look at this:
http://www.sco.com/products/merge/

“Full integration between the UNIX and Windows filesystems for user documents and settings”

]]> By: Uli https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/11/21/fun-with-openserver-6-and-mergepro/comment-page-1/#comment-259293 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:46:50 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10662#comment-259293 In reply to raijinkai.

Just install the MergePro in OpenServer 6 and after the installation of Windows take a look into the “winpro” folder.
There is no disk image like with other virtual machines, but for example a “Documents and Users” folder.

]]> By: raijinkai https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/11/21/fun-with-openserver-6-and-mergepro/comment-page-1/#comment-259291 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:17:50 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10662#comment-259291 ” MergePro uses a plain directory instead of a binary hard disk image file as a file storage.”
I don’t remember it doing that. In fact, it had a winhdd.pro to store install, and it had to use a dirty hack for text setup mode part of install so built-in IDE drivers wouldn’t corrupt the HDD image (” -win2k-hack”, very well know by qemu users)(is interesting all qemu derivatives had this hack, while VPC, VMware, PCEm and Boch’s don’t need it at all).

]]> By: Malcolm https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/11/21/fun-with-openserver-6-and-mergepro/comment-page-1/#comment-259289 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:14:08 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10662#comment-259289 In reply to Uli.

Are you referring to Win4Lin/Merge or Win4LinPro/MergePro? Have you seen these products host an NT-based Windows and store the Windows file system in a plain directory?

]]> By: Uli https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/11/21/fun-with-openserver-6-and-mergepro/comment-page-1/#comment-259287 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 20:24:22 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10662#comment-259287 MergePro / Win4Lin had some adventages compared to plain qemu.
The Windows installation is nearly automated and you can access the windows file system from Unix since MergePro uses a plain directory instead of a binary hard disk image file as a file storage.
Also there are some performance improvements compared to the free qemu.

There was also Win4BSD and Win4Solaris which were the same product but for other Operating Systems.

]]> By: Uli https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/11/21/fun-with-openserver-6-and-mergepro/comment-page-1/#comment-259284 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 18:21:27 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10662#comment-259284 In reply to Chris M..

OpenServer 6 has also kde3 which doesnt looks that outdated.
But the default is this XDT motif desktop environment.

]]> By: Loren Damish https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/11/21/fun-with-openserver-6-and-mergepro/comment-page-1/#comment-259245 Thu, 26 Nov 2020 07:02:49 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10662#comment-259245 -Offtopic-

Maybe as a retro fans we can give this guy some encouragement as he’s some good stuff on their website.

https://socket3.wordpress.com/2020/11/21/2020-the-year-that-went-down-like-a-disk-full-of-bad-sectors/

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