OS/2 Warp

[mcandre]

• Pending https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/8057
• Pending https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/8059
• Pending https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18931
• Pending https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18898
• Pending https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18893
• Pending https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18894
• Pending https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18895
• Pending https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18896
• Pending https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18899
• Pending https://ecsoft2.org/rpmyum-os2#comment-1312
• Pending https://www.reddit.com/r/OS2/comments/d4utd1/help_webexplorer_is_corrupting_yum_wpi/
• Pending https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualization/comments/cyr1up/host_sleep_vboxmanage_subcommand/

https://winworldpc.com/product/os-2-warp-4/os-2-warp-40

http://www.altsan.org/os2/utils/

https://ecsoft2.org/wget

https://ecsoft2.org/curl

https://os2ports.smedley.info

https://os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php?page=cmake

https://www.arcanoae.com/resources/downloadables/arca-noae-package-manager/

https://www.elebbs.com/index.php?category=6

[mcandre]

Now that the hard part of producing a fresh OS/2 Warp installation with Packer-ish conventions is complete, the rest is the relatively easier tasks of satisfying the various vagrant ssh, vagrant rsync, etc. commands. Hopefully the boot instability issues plaguing the build don't effect the runtime.

TODO:

• [ ] Try using the OS/2 guest type instead of eCom.
• [ ] Try caching rpm-yum-bootstrap-1_5-i386.wpi on Packer host, downloading file with WebExplorer URL http://{{.HTTPHost}}:{{.HTTPPort}}/rpm-yum-bootstrap-1_5-i386.wpi
• [ ] Resolve WebExplorer silently failing to download http://rpm.netlabs.org/bootstrap/rpm-yum-bootstrap-1_5-i386.wpi
• [ ] Install yum. https://ecsoft2.org/rpmyum-os2
• [x] Use either echo (with echo.>>c:\wget.xcd, echo action="install" >>c:\wget.xcd, echo ^</archive^> >>c:\wget.xcd syntax) or WebExplorer with host-provided XCD scripts, to automate installing individual WarpIN packages.
• [x] Automate installing individual WarpIN packages with XCD files http://www.blondeguy.com/WarpINEssay.html
• [x] Install WarpIN. http://warpin.netlabs.org/en/site/index.xml
• [ ] Install sshd. http://www.altsan.org/os2/utils/#openssh
• [ ] Install rsync. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asvn.netlabs.org+-inurl%3Atimeline+-inurl%3Aticket+rsync&oq=site%3Asvn.netlabs.org+-inurl%3Atimeline+-inurl%3Aticket+rsync (netlabs doesn't appear to offer their own server to search for WarpIN packages)
• [ ] Install WarpIN (Unsure whether the EXE install media is an installer or the ordinary runtime binary, perhaps both.
• [ ] Automate downloading WarpIN 1.0.19 install media (Hopefully the ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/warpin/warpin-1-0-19.exe link is accessible by OS/2's native, 2GB limited FTP client)
• [x] Identify ftp CLI arguments (woah, not -h, /?, but -? is the help flag)
• [ ] Identify interactive ftp client commands to obtain URL ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/warpin/warpin-1-0-19.exe (expecting similar to LFTP)
• [x] Send passive mode option to FTP server (quote pasv)
• [ ] Configure FTP session to use a specific passive port [range] and vbox NAT the same port [range] https://superuser.com/questions/1094347/problems-with-ftp-file-access-to-virtualbox-guest-running-windows-2008-server-r2/1250749#1250749
• [ ] Search for other native file transfer utilities. https://comp.os.os2.apps.narkive.com/De2Q1OOA/ftp-passive-mode-in-os-2 (wget, curl, a Web browser)
• [x] Use WebExplorer's passive mode to download WarpIn.
• [x] Resolve file save error (Rename WarpIN download filename to warpin.exe)
• [x] Try saving WarpIN media to C: directory (Unsure whether the executable is an installer for setting up WarpIN, or just the WarpIN runtime itself)
• [ ] Try bridged virtual network configuration https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25420 (VBoxManage modifyvm os/2 --nic1 bridged)
• [ ] Resolve vbox session lock for VBoxManage modifyvm os/2 --nic1 bridged (Evaluate executing the subcommand during a part of Packer vboxmanage sections before VM is started.)
• [ ] Evaluate effect of vbox bridging on HTTP provisioning.
• [ ] Evaluate effect of vbox bridging on SSH, SCP, rsync provisioning.
• [x] Authenticate to ftp.netlabs.org (OS/2 ftp client prompts for an explicit anonymous username with an explicit blank password)
• [x] Identify the latest WarpIN release: 1.0.19 http://warpin.netlabs.org/en/site/downloads.xml (They really did sort versions ascending like a goof)
• [x] Resolve black screen with blinking cursor (rerun build)
• [x] Work around strange UI workflow differences between hand-typed vs. Packer machine-typed install (Check timings, virtual hardware settings, roll with machine-typed UI.)
• [x] Work around session lock timeout (Remember to run startcm's corresponding controlvm <VM name> poweroff at the end of the vboxmanage Pacaker section.)
• [ ] Resolve FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted. (Try ensuring virtual hard drive becomes boot priority upon OS installation.)
• [x] Resolve The system cannot find the file "ibm2scsi.add". (Ensure floppy disks remain inserted for each of their repeated data loads.)
• [x] Try VBoxManage guestproperty wait <uuid> goodnight-moon --timeout <milliseconds> to sleep the host between floppy data loads.
• [ ] Use VBoxManage commands with virtualbox-ovf builder to produce base box.
• [x] Resolve SYS0039: The C: device is not ready (Limit hard drive size ~ 4 GB)
• [x] Check for existing Vagrant boxes for OS/2 Warp / eComStation (none as of this writing).
• [ ] Install rsync.
• [ ] Check for WinRM implementations for OS/2.
• [ ] Check for sshd implementations for OS/2.
• [ ] Check for telnetd implementations for OS/2.
• [ ] Check for kermit implementations for OS/2.
• [ ] Write keyboard communicator plugin for Vagrant, copying Packer boot_command syntax.

Need to resolve installation media boot errors.

• [x] Insert Installation.img virtual floppy disk.
• [x] Prioritize floppy boot order.
• [x] Insert Disk01.img virtual floppy disk.
• [x] Insert Disk02.img virtual floppy disk.

[francoisjacques]

Just found this issue. I used Packer a while back and was recently wondering about using it to provision OS2 virtual machines. Nice job putting this issue together.

OS/2 being the weird thing it became after the MSFT/IBM divorce, there are some non-trivial challenges to this task. I would stick with OS2Warp 4.52 (ACP2), instead of eCS or ArcaOS as baseline. The others will be supported through backcomp. Only if that becomes clearly a deadend that another flavor should be chosen, in which case I'd go for ArcaOS.

There's a telnetd built in IBM's TCP/IP package iirc? Kermit (!!!!) is available from hobbes for sure.

WinRM? Nope and won't be happening either. You can remote it from the list right away. This was added to Windows long after the IBM/MSFT divorce. Customization is likely to be done in REXX...!