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Metztli Reiser4 -enhanced GNU Parted for Debian Bookworm backports

Jose — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 14:15:00 +0000

Enhancing Debian Bookworm backports GNU Parted utilities with reiser4 detection/probe hack.

Although currently there is no reiser4 patch for the 6.x.y Linux kernel, I was prodded to use Debian Bookworm GCC12 compiler to generate a 5.17.12-3 reiser4 -enhanced kernel and, of course, downgrade the default kernel for Debian Bookworm backports, accordingly.

I also needed GNU Parted to recognize my former and ensuing reiser4 file system partitions in this aggregate ~ three(3) terabytes mixed dual hard disk storage medium.

The default tlilxochitl, i.e., vanilla, GNU Parted detection and/or probing utilities are stunted by design -- a likely reflection of its maintainer at Red Hat -- since they fail miserably at reiser4 file system detection -- as seen in the ensuing snapshot:

Debian GNU Parted without Reiser4 support

Evidently, I needed to enhance GNU Parted with reiser4 and, thus, generated the following DEBs:

libparted2_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb
libparted2_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb.SHA256SUM
parted_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb
parted_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb.SHA256SUM
libparted-dev_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb
libparted-dev_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb.SHA256SUM
libparted-fs-resize0_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb
libparted-fs-resize0_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb.SHA256SUM
libparted-i18n_3.5-3.1_all.deb
libparted-i18n_3.5-3.1_all.deb.SHA256SUM
parted-doc_3.5-3.1_all.deb
parted-doc_3.5-3.1_all.deb.SHA256SUM

Subsequently, acquiring root privilege -- with sudo or as root -- I installed the bare minimum DEB packages to enhance the Bookworm user environment experience:

dpkg -i parted_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb libparted2_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb

i.e., specifically, at the shell prompt:

Shell

dpkg -i parted_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb libparted2_3.5-3.1_amd64.deb

The magic was instantaneous as reiser4 -enhanced GNU Parted detected the existing reiser4 file systems in my system:

reiser4 -enhanced Debian GNU Parted

For a non-Debian-packaged GNU Parted enahanced with reiser4 (SFRN) 4.0.2, the GitHub testing repository https://github.com/Metztli/gnu-parted-reiser4 can be cloned -- and built (but sudo or root privilege is needed for the last incantation) -- as:

Shell

git clone https://github.com/Metztli/gnu-parted-reiser4.git
cd gnu-parted-reiser4
./bootstrap
./configure
make
make install

(Please type ./configure --help after ./bootstrap successfully completes -- as you may need to pass your preferred arguments to that ./configure directive).

Additionally, please note that you will need Autoconf-2.71 or greater as your ./bootstrap invocation will end in error if that requirement is not met. For instance, I was working in a Metztli Reiser4 / Debian Bullseye backports for AMD64 instance and I had to generate relevant Autoconf as the existing one is too old:

autoconf_2.71-4_all.deb
autoconf_2.71-4_all.deb.SHA256SUM

autoconf-doc_2.71-4_all.deb
autoconf-doc_2.71-4_all.deb.SHA256SUM

WARNING: Zan niNemilia : «Просто мое Воображение» : "Just my Imagination" ~ The Temptations

DISCLAIMER although due diligence has been applied, this resource is made available for testing/evaluation purposes on an AS IS basis. The procedure only reflects my own modifications, my limited testing, and the potential user(s) who execute(s) the procedures assumes all risks.

Please do not hold me or Metztli Information Technology (and/or its associates) responsible if the information provided here does not achieve the desired result. The information is provided AS IS and with the hope that it may be useful to the Internet community --especially non-hypocrites, open-minded individuals interested in Reiser4 continued development.

Notwithstanding, There is no implicit or explicit guarantee that the information presented here is accurate --even though due diligence was exercised during the procedure. Accordingly, if an user(s) decide to implement the procedure or shell commands described here she, he, or them, do so at her, his, or their own risk. You have been forewarned.

Metztli IT, but not other entities, reserves the right to modify the content -- to correct and/or elucidated procedure(s), for instance -- and/or even delete all or partial, including blog post, without previous notice.

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Mathematica on OS/2 Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP) for v2.11 Guest in VirtualBox 16 CPU/Cores

Jose — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:10:00 +0000

Giving a spin to Mathematica for OS/2 - Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP) for v2.11 with 16 CPU/Cores in VirtualBox 7.0.6 built from source in Metztli Reiser4 / Debian Bullseye backports AMD64. TigerVNC froze multiple times after connecting to the remote headless VirtualBox instance. Accordingly, I had to use Remmina again for a decent VNC connection. Nevertheless, OS/2 v2.11 VM falls back to use the PS2 mouse hardware which causes the mouse position to drift from the real mouse pointer as it is moved in both VNC clients.

(Once the video player has started, right selecting (or 'clicking') your device (or 'mouse') will show menu option, 'Open video in new tab', which will enable larger screen size. Alternatively, the video with larger screen size may be shown in the Calli, i.e., 'Home', collection front page)

OS/2 Magazine Vol. 3 No. 5 May 1996

Pg. 70 - OS/2 Magazine Vol. 3 No. 5 May 1996

Pg. 71 - OS/2 Magazine Vol. 3 No. 5 May 1996

Pg. 72 - OS/2 Magazine Vol. 3 No. 5 May 1996

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Cihuamizton

Jose — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:18:00 +0000

Came across this Великолепный Cihuamizton : Gorgeous Female cat but realized that it was Ангелина Кузнецова imitating her nahual, i.e., animal counterpart to which her tonalli,i.e., life energy, is inextricably linked to.

Thus, I built a Bullseye backport of the Debian packaging for ffmpeg n5.1.2-1 to manipulate these type files. I began by fulfilling dependencies:

Shell

apt-get -t bullseye-backports update
apt-get -t bullseye-backports install libaom3 libcjson1 libfdk-aac2

And fetched these three(3) DEB packages from Debian Bookworm:

libmbedcrypto7_2.28.1-1_amd64.deb
librist4_0.2.7+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
librist-dev_0.2.7+dfsg-1_amd64.deb

And proceeded to install them into my Metztli Reiser4 / Debian Bullseye backports for AMD64:

Shell

dpkg -i libmbedcrypto7_2.28.1-1_amd64.deb librist4_0.2.7+dfsg-1_amd64.deb librist-dev_0.2.7+dfsg-1_amd64.deb

subsequently, after downloading the Debian Bookworm packaging for ffmpeg (7:5.1.2-1), fetched ffmpeg source repository:

Shell

git clone https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg

Whereas libavresample4 existed in Bullseye, it is deprecated in Bookworm. Accordingly, it is not part of the backported DEB components built listed above.

Additionally, I disabled in debian/control and debian/rules a couple of features which were introduced in Bookworm but do not exist in current Bullseye distribution. Those features required a higher glibc than currently in Bullseye and although I could likely have backported those extra packages, what I built suffices for my testing needs.

Cuahuencho, Nahuatl word which means: Горячий Розовый Цвет : Hot Pink Color

WARNING! Rick James', 'Give It to Me, Baby! : Дай это мне, детка!'
'Выход за рамки приличия ещё не делает вас плохим человеком…… Так же, как и посещение церкви не делает вас хорошим' ≈
'Going beyond the bounds of decency does not make you a bad person…… Just like going to church doesn't make you good'~ Ангелина.

Tlapaltic, Nahuatl word which means: Красный : Red; and Tlaztalehualli which means: Розовый : Pink

(again WARNING! Rick James' «Сексуальный Угощение» : "Sexy Treat",
«Не будь таким труднодоступным» : "Don't Be So Hard To Get"'

Hueyatl, Nahuatl word which means: Океан : Ocean; and Camohpaltic which means: Фиолетовый : Purple

'всегда делаю что хочу 🐈‍⬛ I always do what I want ?'

Iztlamecayotl, agglutinated Nahuatl word composed of Iztac: Белый: White, and Tlamecayotl: Косы: Braids -- inanimate objects have no plural in Nahuatl, hence Белые косы: White braids

In Tlilcueitl in Iztahuipilli comes from a Nahuatl coupling of two images, Юбка Блузка : The skirt the blouse, to suggest a third: самка, женщина или женщины : female, woman, or women

¹
Of course, in this specific instance we concatenate tliltic : черный : black, and iztac : белый : white, to the relevant images to specifically suggest Ангелина's image in the video which, by the way, suggested (again WARNING!)The Sorels (Dan Hartman) «Я Могу Мечтать О Тебе» : 'I Can Dream About You'.

Tzinitzinia² : Она бьет себя по заднице : [She] hits her butt

Heading is self-explanatory for the ensuing video composition utilizing listed ffmpeg build utilities listed previously.

Ангелина shows us there is more than one way Ihtotia : Танцевать : To dance the Zoot Suitless Boogie

Itic moNahualtia Iztac Cihuamizton in Ангелина Кузнецова ... i∙onotoc : Ангелина Кузнецова приняла свою животную форму Белой Кошки Женского пола ... она раскрутилась и вытянулась : Angelina Kuznetsova became her White Female Cat animal form ... she unwound and stretched out.

WARNING: Zan niNemilia : «Просто мое Воображение» : "Just my Imagination" ~ The Temptations

TzonTlaztalehualli : Розовые Волосы : Pink Hair

WARNING:Tlazohtzintli ³ Nochipa : Любимый Навсегда : Darling Forever ~ 'Los Stardusters'

References: Ангелина Кузнецова : Angelina Kuznetsova

It had been a while since I had built a custom ffmpeg and the above build basically refreshed my memory. Accordingly, the resources available above are for illustrative purposes and there is NO IMPLICIT NOR EXPLICIT WARRANTY as to their suitability for any task should those resources be downloaded and used by any individual and/or entity.

Online Nahuatl Dictionary: Cuahuencho.
Online Nahuatl Dictionary: Tlamecayotl.
Online Nahuatl Dictionary: In cueitl in huipilli.

Donations are welcomed by Wired Humanities to maintain Nahuatl, real Mexico's language par excellence, as an online resource.

¹ A peculiar problem is posed by the stylistic features of the more traditional texts and particularly by what Garibay baptized difrasismo. The coupling of two images to suggest a third meaning. It is becoming clear that the poetic features of Nahuatl style are even more complex than Garibay believed, including not only couplet parallelism as a general feature and Garibay´s binomial difrasismo as an embellishment but also a polynomial repetition with both semantic and poetic force (Edmonson 1974, 12).
Los difrasismos en el Nahuatl

² Online Nahuatl Dictionary: Tzintamalli :
ягодица[а̶ы] : buttock[s]

³DICTIONNAIRE de la langue NAHUATL CLASSIQUE Tlazohtzintli:
Kind or darling.
tlazohtli, tlazohtzintli, tlazohtlalōni , esteemed, darling, worthy of being loved - esteemed, lovely, worthy of being loved. Is said of a noble lady, tēixhuiuh. Sah10,50.
tlazohtli, tlazohtzintli, tlazohtitlācatl, īxtilli, īmacaxtli, ahquehquelli , esteemed, cherished, a noble and esteemed person, respected, worthy of great respect, full of dignity, esteemed, lovely , an esteemed noble, respected, revered, dignified. Is said of a noble lady, cihuāpilli. Sah10,45.

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Metztli Reiser4: 'How can the [VirtualBox] guest additions work if they are no native OS/2 progs[?]'

Jose — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:16:00 +0000

(To view in larger dimension, once the video starts, you can right select (click) on it and choose 'Open video in new tab' from the ensuing menu.)

Recently I came across the question of the title and the associated issue: how to enable the VirtualBox Guest Additions for OS/2. Indeed, this is an old issue which surviving savvy OS/2ers have managed to achieve. Notwithstanding, as is usually the case, the procedure is nowhere to be found -- probably due to OS/2ers proprietary mindset since most have migrated to the allegedly corrupt oligarch Bill Gate's mediocre, compromised, virus-like software. Spearheaded by the mundane household name, windows, Microsoft is imposed on US' vassal governments, like that of the pusillanimous New Spain, aka, 'Mexico', and Zio- Nazi Ukraine's¹.

Alas, VirtualBox Guest Additions are proprietary software as they are released as VirtualBox Personal Use and Evaluation License (PUEL); incidentally, the acronym closely resembles PUKE, just pointing out the obvious. Just for the record, I do not need such PUKE..., er, PUEL, since under my Linux -based Metztli Reiser4 as in all versions of OS/2 2.0, 2.1x, Warp 3, and Warp 4, I can just generate on the fly an ISO image from the command prompt to transfer files from Linux to OS/2. I can, alternatively, mount a given OS/2 version as a virtual disk under a guest Metztli Reiser4 and transfer data (assuming, of course, the OS/2 file system is not hpfs386 . Also, allegedly VirtualBox Guest additions depend on a KERNEL EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT (KEE) extension introduced only in the kernels of WSEB and a certain late fixpak for OS/2 Warp Merlin.

For instance, here is what happens when the VirtualBox Guest additions are enabled for a fixpaked OS/2 Warp 3 Connect running the last available kernel:

SYS1718: The system cannot find the file KEE specified

Accordingly, installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions was more an act of technological curiosity more than anything else -- as I strive to stay away from cave proprietary development.

Lowdown

If you are going to build the most recent VirtualBox 6.1.34/36 under Debian Buster/Bullseye and/or Amatlocuilin, i.e., 'Bookworm', Debian Linux, you will need to install the following packages -- as root or wielding root privilege with sudo :

Shell

dpkg --add-architecture i386

Shell

apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses6 libc6-dev-i386 lib32gcc-s1 gcc-multilib lib32stdc++6 g++-multilib gcc g++ bcc iasl xsltproc uuid-dev zlib1g-dev libidl-dev libsdl1.2-dev libxcursor-dev libasound2-dev libstdc++5 libpulse-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python-dev libcap-dev libxmu-dev mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libpam0g-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev makeself libdevmapper-dev default-jdk texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended genisoimage libvpx-dev libvncserver-dev libssl-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev qttools5-dev-tools make libopus-dev liblzf-dev gsoap jaxws docbook-xsl docbook-xsl-ns python3-sphinx yasm libtpms-dev qttools5-dev

(If on Debian Bookworm 12 and VirtualBox-7.0.20, replace python-dev above with python-dev-is-python3 and include libpython3.10-dev and/or libpython3.11-dev libgsoap-dev as well as libcurl4-openssl-dev and glslang-tools -- as this latter package provides glslangValidator)

Also, if building VirtualBox 7.0.20 on Debian Bookworm AMD64 you experience an error with output containing a line similar to:

kmk: *** No rule to make target '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Help.so', needed by '/usr/src/build/VirtualBox-7.0.20/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/UICommon/UICommon.so'. Stop.

then qttools5-dev must be missing -- even if the configure.log file shows every dependency to build VirtualBox 7.0.20 is fulfilled.

If building VirtualBox 7.1.0 on Debian 12 Amatlocuilin, i.e., 'Bookworm', you will need the packages:
qt6-5compat-dev qt6-base-dev qt6-base-dev-tools qt6-tools-dev qt6-scxml-dev

Additionally, if building VirtualBox 7.2.2 on Debian 13 Trixie, and you get a similar error as:

xyz/build/VirtualBox-7.2.2/src/VBox/Runtime/generic/http-curl.cpp:2097:43:
invalid conversion from ‘long int’ to ‘curl_proxytype’

you will need a patch developed by Debian and being used by other distros, too:
new-curl.patch to be applied to

src/VBox/Runtime/generic/http-curl.cpp

VirtualBox 7.2.4 on Metztli Reiser4 5.17.15-2

and the higher version upstream package
qt6-base-dev_6.8.2+dfsg-9_amd64.deb
which contains an extra file:
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/QtCore/qglobal.h

otherwise, your build from source will fail, halting when referencing:

#include <QtGlobal>

Please, do add to the package dependencies previously elaborated, if needed, i.e., if not on a Metztli Reiser4:

Shell

apt-get install linux-kernel-headers

We can then download the OSE VirtualBox most recent source release and extension pack:

Shell

wget -P ~/Downloads https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.36/VirtualBox-6.1.36.tar.bz2 https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.36/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.36-152435.vbox-extpack https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.36/SHA256SUMS

And verify their integrity:

Shell

for i in $(sha256sum ~/Downloads/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.36-152435.vbox-extpack ~/Downloads/VirtualBox-6.1.36.tar.bz2 | cut -d' ' -f1); do grep $i ~/Downloads/SHA256SUMS; done

Note that the sha256sum is currently the same for Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.36-152435.vbox-extpack (fetched) as for Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.36.vbox-extpack which only exists in SHA256SUMS file.

Once at the directory location selected to untar our VirtualBox source archive, we do:

Shell

tar -xf ~/Downloads/VirtualBox-6.1.36.tar.bz2

and change into VirtualBox-6.1.36:

Shell

cd VirtualBox-6.1.36

We also bring with us the fetched extension pack:

Shell

cp -iv ~/Downloads/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.36-152435.vbox-extpack .

We configure our source:

Shell

./configure --disable-docs --disable-hardening --enable-vde --enable-vnc

(please, type ./configure --help to see for more information)

Metztli Reiser4 configure VirtualBox 6.1.36

We follow the guidelines at the end of the output (in above snapshot) after a successful VirtualBox source configuration:

Shell

source env.sh
kmk

After a fraction of an hour kmk ends without errors:

Metztli Reiser4 VirtualBox kmk final output

We peek to find out what VirtualBox modules will be built by observing their directory name:

Shell

ls out/linux.amd64/release/bin/src

then we start the make procedure -- specifying -C option to instruct make to change directory first:

Shell

make -C out/linux.amd64/release/bin/src

Metztli Reiser4 make -C source modules

After the modules build completes, we again peek as in command 11 above. We should see the freshly minted modules inheriting their source directory name but concatenating a .ko file extension. We acquire root privilege with su and proceed to install the VirtualBox modules:

Shell

make -C out/linux.amd64/release/bin/src install

make -C source modules install

We can verify that the VirtualBox 6.1.36 modules were indeed installed for our reiser4 kernel:

Shell

ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc

VirtualBox modules installed to /usr/lib/`uname -r`/misc

Acquiring root privilege with su and/or as root in Debian -based Metztli Reiser4 we enable (load) the modules:

Shell

depmod -a
modprobe vboxdrv
modprobe vboxnetflt
modprobe vboxnetadp
chgrp [user group name] /dev/vboxdrv
chmod g+rw /dev/vboxdrv

Now as a normal user, i.e., no root privilege, we set the path to our VirtualBox 6.1.36 binary:

Shell

PATH=/path/to/our/VirtualBox-6.1.36/out/linux.amd64/release/bin:$PATH

We Verify that, in effect, we can call to execute our VirtualBox binary:

Shell

which VirtualBox
VirtualBox &

Subsequently, the VirtualBox 6.1.36 r152435 type 2 hypervisor will start, containing all the previous virtual machines we have created, if at all:

VirtualBox 6.1.36 r152435

Helpful OS/2 Warp 4 Utility and How to Enable It.

grep from grep_3-4-1.zip at Netlabs
depends on:
libcn0.dll from libc-0_1_7-1_oc00.zip
libcx0.dll from libcx-0_4_1-1_oc00.zip
WARNING: libcx0.dll from libcx-0_7_2-1_oc00.zip did not work;
it yields: A non-recoverable error occurred. The process ended.
intl8.dll from gettext-0_19_8_1-3_oc00.zip
gcc1.dll from gcc-9_2_0-5_oc00.zip
gcc444.dll from gcc-9_2_0-5_oc00.zip
pcre8.dll from pcre-8_45-1_oc00_1.zip
libc063.dll from libc-0_6_6-40_oc00.zip
libc066.dll from libc-0_6_6-40_oc00.zip
pthr01.dll from pthread-20190130-23_oc00.zip
urpo.dll from urpo-20160630-12_oc00.zip

Extracting those DLLs and subsequently placing them under your /OS2/DLL/ directory will enable the grep utility where, of course, grep is an executable and should be placed under /OS2/ ; then you can invoke grep from any location in your command line.

¹
Microsoft is 'encroaching on the sovereignty of other states', besides Ukraine:
Microsoft announces a $1.1 billion investment plan to drive digital transformation in country including its first cloud datacenter region

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OS/2 Warp 3 Connect under Metztli Reiser4 built VirtualBox 6.1.34

Jose — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:23:00 +0000

All IBM fixpaks applied to OS/2 Warp 3 Connect, as well as the EMX runtime and GNU utilities installed. Gradd97 video driver has been applied, and selected resolution is 1024x768.

The public domain Korn Shell environment gives the OS/2 command shell a UNIXish touch -- which I prefer over the default OS/2 shell/command.

Background Image

Initially, I had used Gimp to convert a background image into BMP -- the format OS/2 Warp 3 accepts as default. It did not work as OS/2 failed to recognize it. Subsequently, I tried CorelDRAW v2.5 for OS/2 2.x but application was unable to convert a JPG into a BMP image -- complaining about lack of memory (1024-2048 MB RAM!) for such 'large file' and crashing. Finally, I used ImpOS/2 to convert a JPG image into a BMP and... it worked fast!

Obviously, 'not your father's (nor IBM's) OS/2' -- a modified cliche.

(To view in larger dimension, once the video starts, you can right select (click) on it and choose 'Open video in new tab' from the ensuing menu.)

Recently, I experienced an issue with Terminology 1.12.1, which is a component of Enlightenment window manager; using the fc command under Zsh to edit a previously entered command did not inherit the font color set in Terminology but the font color became black as the editor background. The result is that the command to edit is unreadable. Additionally, if I exited the editor with :q the command pasted into Terminology would inherit the black fonts in the editor instance, i.e., unreadable on a dark/black shell background. Correction: seems to affect only a Metztli Reiser4 / Debian Buster Terminology build only.

As a matter of fact, I had been extensively using the fc command with the public domain Korn shell (pdksh) under OS/2 Warp 3 Connect without issues:

Using fc command in pdksh under OS/2 Warp 3

arrows show the order of events:

Using fc command in pdksh under OS/2 Warp3 event order

Well, I have reported the Terminology fc issue to its developer. Hopefully, he will not blame the user -- as is usually the case with the Enlightenment lead developer.

Do VirtualBox 6.1.34 Guest Additions work under OS/2 Warp 3 Connect?

No. Period. The (last) OS/2 kernel available for OS/2 Warp 3 Connect was in fixpak 40 -- as far as I am concerned; of course, there is fixpak 43 for the SMP version which kernel I have not tested yet. Notwithstanding, allegedly VirtualBox Guest additions depend on a KERNEL EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT (KEE) extension introduced in the kernels of WSEB and a certain late fixpak for OS/2 Warp Merlin.

The snapshot below shows what happens when the OS/2 Warp 3 Connect boot procedure tries to load the CONFIG.SYS file entries relevant to the VirtualBox proprietary OS/2 Guest Additions:

DEVICE=X:\OS2\VBOXGUEST.SYS
IFS=X:\OS2\VBOXSF.IFS

where X is the drive letter where OS/2 is installed.

SYS1718: The system cannot find the file KEE specied in the DEVICE statement on line xy in the CONFIG.SYS file...

SYS1718

Contrast the above with the proper loading of VirtualBox Guest Additions Driver/IFS for OS/2 version 6.1.34 r150636 under OS/2 Warp 4 with fixpak 15:

VirtualBox Guest additions Driver for OS/2

As a matter of fact, one way to check for the KEE extension in an OS/2 kernel is with UNIX util grep -- as in this OS/2 W4 os2krnl:

Shell

grep -ai "kee" os2krnl

grepping for KEE in OS/2 W4 kernel

We can see the green colored char strings when we utilize grep 3.4 from Netlabs

Addendum (04-19-2024)
Well, I tried Mathcad PLUS 6.0 Professional under OS/2 Warp Connect with WinOS2 running under the latest VirtualBox 7.0.16 built from source under my Metztli Reiser4 / Debian Bullseye for AMD64 environment:

Mathcad PLUS 6.0 Professional under OS/2 Warp Connect with WinOS2

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GUI Related Issues with Enlightenment 0.25.1 in Debian Bullseye with Any Preexisting Default Desktop

Jose — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 13:21:00 +0000

A few days ago I decided to give a spin to Enlightenment 0.25.1, which has a dependency on EFL 1.26.1, another package I had to build 'a priori ' if I wanted to have 'the pleasure of flatness', , and which mere mention conjures up the notion of a 2-dimensional boresome space. There were no Debian packaging for EFL 1.26.1, much less Debian packaging for e17-0.25.1 (E). Thus, I had to hack older Debian packaging versions, nudging the respective builds until I eventually succeeded.

Notwithstanding, after installation of the two set of packages, I realized the fonts were not right. Additionally, upon starting Textadept editor, the application window size to physical screen relation was awful! Increasing the size of the application rendered ugly font ratios -- even if I increased the size of the text with CTRL+. Odd, I thought; perhaps my build was not correct? --after all, this was a preliminary hack.

Nevertheless, I continued experimenting by opening Yandex-Browser βeta for Linux (Скацатъ : Download for Debian) -- same issue. Then I opened up a Firefox recent release and, although the fonts displaying the content were readable, the peripheral, menu, URL address field, bookmarks bar, etc. looked tiny. I ended my experience by opening up Chromium browser and, since it shares some code with Yandex-Browser βeta, it was not entirely unexpected that it also displayed awfully -- in a smaller dimension than the physical screen size.

I had not experienced those issues in the different GNU / Linux distributions, with their multiple window manager desktops, that I had tried since circa 1995. At that time I struggled to bring up the X Window system under a Red Hat Linux distribution -- which, by the way, dual booted with OS/2 Warp3 in a bare metal entry server :

OS/2 Warp 3, orphaned by IBM, subsequently virtualized in VirtualBox

In other words, since that time I had not had to 'resize and/or scale' fonts in any of the different physical machines that I used. Window managers in GNU / Linux simply worked, 'out of the box,' after a successful installation.

Something was amiss. Posting to the Enlightenment developers' mail list simply yielded ambiguities: 'you have your fonts wrong,' stated the 'experts', and the like, as if I ever touched my system(s) font(s) attributes; these are working Debian default desktop window managers, like LXQT and GNOME3, where subsequently I have installed Enlightenment WM -- up to now with no issues.

After a couple of days, I reverted back to the previous properly displaying EFL 1.25.x Enlightenment, 0.24.x, and/or Window Maker (WMaker), my fall back window manager. Then, 'out of the blue,' I read a reply from another Enlightenment peer -- who was not even subscribed to the mailing list -- concretely stating the problem I was experiencing and conveying that he had even created a patch to revert what he thought was an unintended commit in the Enlightenment code. I asked him if he was willing to share his patches and he kindly agreed.

Below are the EFL 1.26.x Debian packages for AMD64 as well as the patched Enlightenment 0.25.x discussed 'a priori.' They were built with GCC10 for Debian 11, aka Bullseye. If you are on Debian and, like myself, do not usually disturb the distribution maintainers' default font and/or scaling attributes, these patched Enlightenment Debian packages potentially will prevent you from losing your valuable time and 'going nuts' attempting to figure out why Enlightenment wreaks havoc with your desktop fonts and applications and, more importantly, you will more likely appreciate this latest release of Enlightenment rather than dismissing it as a window manager for control fanatics and/or fascists.

EFL 1.26.x-y.z

e17-0.25.1 (Enlightenment) -- includes all backgrounds, thus huge size.

enlightenment-data_0.25.1-2_all.deb
enlightenment-data_0.25.1-2_all.deb.SHA256SUM
enlightenment_0.25.1-2_amd64.deb
enlightenment_0.25.1-2_amd64.deb.SHA256SUM
enlightenment-dev_0.25.1-2_amd64.deb
enlightenment-dev_0.25.1-2_amd64.deb.SHA256SUM

e17-0.25.1 (Enlightenment) -- Abridged includes only four backgrounds, thus decreased size.

enlightenment-data_0.25.1-3_all.deb
enlightenment-data_0.25.1-3_all.deb.SHA256SUM
enlightenment_0.25.1-3_amd64.deb
enlightenment_0.25.1-3_amd64.deb.SHA256SUM
enlightenment-dev_0.25.1-3_amd64.deb
enlightenment-dev_0.25.1-3_amd64.deb.SHA256SUM

Terminology 1.12.1

terminology-data_1.12.1-1.1_all.deb
terminology-data_1.12.1-1.1_all.deb.SHA256SUM
terminology_1.12.1-1.1_amd64.deb
terminology_1.12.1-1.1_amd64.deb.SHA256SUM

Resources are available AS-IS, i.e., NO EXPLICIT NOR IMPLICIT WARRANTIES.

Ангелина

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Metztli Reiser4 with Zstd enabled initramfs-tools 0.139

Jose — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:18:00 +0000

Since version 0.136 for Debian Buster we have been patching initramfs-tools with Zstd -compression support for Metztli Reiser4 kernels, both Software Framework Release Number (SFRN) 4.0.2

reizer4 cosmetic label for Metztli Reiser4 linux kernels for AMD Epyc/Ryzen

and SFRN 5.1.3, aka 'Metztli Reiser5', as their respective default configurations were modified to Zstd -compression, as well. Recently, notwithstanding, Zstd -compression support has finally been officially enabled as of initramfs-tools 0.138 and 0.139 by upstream Debian developers.

Zstd -enabled initramfs-tools 0.139 has been tested in Metztli Reiser4 for AMD Epyc/Ryzen customized for Google Compute Engine (GCE), which eight(8) core / 32 Gig RAM development instance -- seen at the top snapshot -- is running a Metztli Reiser4 cloud kernel.

Evidently, not only have we backported initramfs-tools 0.139 for Metztli Reiser4 projects but earlier a minor patch in Bug 971270 was applied and the package built, as well:
initramfs-tools-core_0.139+nmu1_all.deb
initramfs-tools_0.139+nmu1_all.deb

The resulting initramfs-tools 0.139 package was tested in a VirtualBox 6.1.16 -- built from source -- which hosted an older reiser4 instance without the Zstd package installed.

Accordingly, I had to first change the older Debian release information¹:

Shell

apt-get --allow-releaseinfo-change update

Then, after upgrading some packages, I installed my newly built initramfs-tools 0.139 packages, as root, all in a single line:

Shell

dpkg -i initramfs-tools-core_0.139+nmu1_all.deb initramfs-tools_0.139+nmu1_all.deb

Subsequently, observing the red underline and thick arrow, we can verify that Zstd is correctly identified as missing:

initramfs-tools 0.139 patched with fix for bug #971270

Well, the message will be helpful for those Linux enthusiasts who have preexisting non-reiser4 kernels and subsequently download and install any of Metztli Reiser4 releases --as initramfs-tools 0.139 will be automagically fetched and installed during subsequent releases.

References:
¹ Switch Debian 10 RC release to stable

NOTE: RESOURCES AVAILABLE WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY WHATSOEVER.

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Metztli Reiser4 Linux Cloud Kernel 5.3.10-2 on Google Compute Engine (GCE).

Jose — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 17:55:00 +0000

Following my recent build of reiser4 -enabled Linux kernel 5.3.10 wrapped in a Debian Packaging for kernel 5.3.9 hack, I happened to be customizing a VirtualBox 6.0.14 Metztli Reiser4 image for Google Compute Engine (GCE). I had installed the tlilxochitl, i.e., vanilla, regular kernel reiser4 -enabled into my customized VirtualBox instance image. Previous experience with one of the early cloud kernels spectacularly failing upon reboot in the cloud made me appreciate this 5.3.10 reiser4 -enabled cloud kernel successful boot.

Replacing Metztli Reiser4 regular tlilxochitl ('vanilla') kernel with a cloud one.

After Metztli Reiser4 successful instantiation into the Google Cloud LA zone fabric, I decided to install the cloud kernel over the tlilxochitl kernel. Ensuing my initial attempt to install with dpkg, the output requested linux-image-cloud-amd64_5.3.10-2+reiser4.0.2_amd64.deb ¹, too. Thus I installed both:

Shell

dpkg -i  linux-image-5.3.0-1+reiser4.0.2-cloud-amd64_5.3.10-2+reiser4.0.2_amd64.deb linux-image-cloud-amd64_5.3.10-2+reiser4.0.2_amd64.deb

Upon Metztli Reiser4 reboot, we can see that the cloud kernel successfully booted into the Google Cloud LA zone fabric.

Metztli Reiser4 cloud kernel into Google Compute Engine (GCE) reiser4 instance.

Although the snapshots were initially from a test image, we have been running custom cpu/ram Metztli Reiser4 in the range of 200Gb to 2TB image(s) for a while but this time with a jfs /boot and reiser4 -formatted / rootfs cloud kernel on Google Compute Engine (GCE)

¹ A cloud-specific Linux package (linux-image-cloud) allowed us to disable features that are not relevant in cloud environments and enable what is really important.
News from the Debian Cloud Team

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	`git clone https://github.com/Metztli/gnu-parted-reiser4.git`
	`cd gnu-parted-reiser4`
	`./bootstrap`
	`./configure`
	`make`
	`make install`

	`depmod -a`
	`modprobe vboxdrv`
	`modprobe vboxnetflt`
	`modprobe vboxnetadp`
	`chgrp [user group name] /dev/vboxdrv`
	`chmod g+rw /dev/vboxdrv`

	`apt-get -t bullseye-backports update`
	`apt-get -t bullseye-backports install libaom3 libcjson1 libfdk-aac2`

	`source env.sh`
	`kmk`

	`which VirtualBox`
	`VirtualBox &`

Ixiptli

Metztli Reiser4 -enhanced GNU Parted for Debian Bookworm backports

Enhancing Debian Bookworm backports GNU Parted utilities with reiser4 detection/probe hack.

Mathematica on OS/2 Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP) for v2.11 Guest in VirtualBox 16 CPU/Cores

Cihuamizton

Cuahuencho, Nahuatl word which means: Горячий Розовый Цвет : Hot Pink Color

Tlapaltic, Nahuatl word which means: Красный : Red; and Tlaztalehualli which means: Розовый : Pink

Hueyatl, Nahuatl word which means: Океан : Ocean; and Camohpaltic which means: Фиолетовый : Purple

Iztlamecayotl, agglutinated Nahuatl word composed of Iztac: Белый: White, and Tlamecayotl: Косы: Braids -- inanimate objects have no plural in Nahuatl, hence Белые косы: White braids

In Tlilcueitl in Iztahuipilli comes from a Nahuatl coupling of two images, Юбка Блузка : The skirt the blouse, to suggest a third: самка, женщина или женщины : female, woman, or women

Tzinitzinia2 : Она бьет себя по заднице : [She] hits her butt

Ангелина shows us there is more than one way Ihtotia : Танцевать : To dance the Zoot Suitless Boogie

TzonTlaztalehualli : Розовые Волосы : Pink Hair

Metztli Reiser4: 'How can the [VirtualBox] guest additions work if they are no native OS/2 progs[?]'

Lowdown

Helpful OS/2 Warp 4 Utility and How to Enable It.

OS/2 Warp 3 Connect under Metztli Reiser4 built VirtualBox 6.1.34

Background Image

Do VirtualBox 6.1.34 Guest Additions work under OS/2 Warp 3 Connect?

GUI Related Issues with Enlightenment 0.25.1 in Debian Bullseye with Any Preexisting Default Desktop

EFL 1.26.x-y.z

e17-0.25.1 (Enlightenment) -- includes all backgrounds, thus huge size.

e17-0.25.1 (Enlightenment) -- Abridged includes only four backgrounds, thus decreased size.

Terminology 1.12.1

Metztli Reiser4 with Zstd enabled initramfs-tools 0.139

Metztli Reiser4 Linux Cloud Kernel 5.3.10-2 on Google Compute Engine (GCE).

Tzinitzinia² : Она бьет себя по заднице : [She] hits her butt