SCO Unix emulator

[Han Pilmeyer]

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.

> 
> It should work with VMWare however. Server is free,
> just need to be registered:
> http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

Yes, possibly. But the tighter integration with kernel drivers is always
a problem when going from one kernel version to the next (at least
that's the way it was when I was using VMware Workstation). This is much
easier with Vbox.

Cheers.
--
Han Pilmeyer
pilux_at_pilmeyer_dot_nl
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