Remember the days of the Apple IIe and Mac OS 1.0, even BeOS and the NextStep/OneSetp OSes? Those were good times, and recently I have been jonesing for a fix of the old school. I still own a ton of old hardware, here is a partial list:
- Apple IIe (x2)
- Apple IIgs (x1) + (x1 Woz edition)
- Macintosh IIcx
- Macintosh Quadra 950
- Macintosh 7200/120
- Macintosh Beige G3 desktop
- Macintosh Blue & White G3 tower
- Macintosh G4 tower
..and the list goes one. While I may repurpose a few of these boxes, (I have a project for the Macintosh IIcx) most will stay dormant in dust.
In the mean time I have found several old OSes on virtual appliances scattered across the interwebs. In the past liking BeOS, I have become fond of Haiku based on BeOS and usable on current hardware (i586 or newer). You can either grab an ISO or grab a VMware disk file (.vmdk).
While I havent used VMware in awhile, preferring Sun’s Virtualbox for the desktop without a web interface, one issue I have come across is the importing of VMware files into Virtualbox. If it was a OVF file this would be easy with the built in importer, but really, it’s just as easy with VMDK files.
Zero: Unpack your VMware disk to your Virtualbox disk folder.
One: Fire up Virtualbox and open the Virtual Media Manager.
Two: Click on ‘add’ then navigate to your VMware file, and click open.
Three: Create a new virtual machine, when you get to the disk creation step choose ‘existing disk’ and choose the VMware file.
Four: Boot your new VM and check to see if everything works, if so, you’re done!
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