>why were people so interested in virtualizing OS/2 in 2007? I'd suspect that driver support negating for new hardware when it came to replacing aging hardware

>why were people so interested in virtualizing OS/2 in 2007? I'd suspect that driver support negating for new hardware when it came to replacing aging hardware in area's in which it was still used as an OS, played a big part. So banks, that bridge to the mainframe and other niche area's in which they had a system that ran on that OS and never replaced.