Virtual Box is a Virtualizer, it allows you to run/boot all kinds of other
operating system on top of the OS you are running natively.
You can get virtual box free from here.
It just so happens that VirtualBox will boot your already DD'd image. Just rename the image to unix.hdd, what matters is the .hdd extension that way Virtual box knows to boot right from it as it would a real hard drive.
It boots the SCO Unix v. 5.05 just fine, the only issue I am having with it so far is the Intel Gigabit ethernet virtual adaptors they offer, do not work so well with SCO.
There is a intel desktop adaptor and 2 server adaptors. The Intel desktop one is the one that works somewhat, it's like it has lots of trouble, the ping times will stay mostly normal, as long as you are not asking anything from it, as soon
as you try to run pos or eagle browser or even network access it starts to drop data, any of those applications do eventually open, it just takes a minute.
So if you have any input as to why its doing this let me know,
feel free to comment on this blog! Any information would be a huge help and i would highly appreciate it. You help me and i will help you.
As you can see the virtual machine settings are pretty much basic,
SCO does not seem to be too picky.
So if we could just concentrate on getting a 10/100 3COM or INTEL Virtual Ethernet Driver added to VirtualBox we would be in business!
I already left a message on the forum with little to no
response,i guess that is what you get for using free software!
Also as a side note, with Virtual Box you don't even need a cpu that supports +VT, you don't even need a dual or quad core, although all that helps a lot with performance, the virtual machine will still run! Virtual Box will run the SCO Unix VM with just a (single core) Intel Celeron 900 cpu in my new 279 dollar laptop from micro center.
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