Hello,
> Before I loose hours trying to get this to work this weekend. Would > anyone know about getting freedos to recognize USB security dongles? that's easy: ANYDOS does nothing about USB, and neither USB security dongles. > I use a HASP USB security dongle to activate an old software > program. I want to run that program from FreeDOS running in a > Virtualbox VM. does it run from MSDOS on real hardware? does it run from FreeDOS on real hardware? only then should you start to try things in a VM (of whatever kind). > Lets say I connect the USB dongle to my Win 10 host that is running > the VM. Will the FreeDOS OS (or the OS could maybe be Win 7 instead) > running in the VM be able to see that HASP USB security dongle and > the program running in that VM get activated for use? how about asking this to product support; either HASP or the originating company? > From my reading it can be done in Virtualbox VirtualBox can indeed forward USB devices to the VM. if this is compatible enough to run *cryptic* dongles should be a question to HASP, not us. > but not sure if > freedos will recognize the usb drivers 'the usb drivers'? you could have tried this by now. Bye. Tom > or would I need to install > them in the guest as well as the host which will be Win 10. > Cheers, > Sean > On Fri 4 Mar 2022, 11:54 tom ehlert, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I was referring to the recommendation of using a "folder" as a drive under >>> DOSEMU. I don't believe that solution supports multiple node access to the >>> same folder. >>> >>> SMB (i.e. MSCLIENT and Samba) were designed for this use case. >> What makes you think so? > Just because it's true? in MSDOS at least. > However I have no idea if that is even implemented in FreeDOS, or > DOSEMU. >> Concurrent access to files is something already handled by SHARE > SHARE is all about access to *local* files, on the FreeDOS machine, and > has absolutely nothing to do with sharing remote files. > Tom > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards Tom Ehlert +49-15151898538 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
