On 9/19/2019 9:03 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 7:41 AM <st...@vwebr.net> wrote:
Asking the question a different way.
Is there another virtual app (alternatives to Virtualbox or VMWare) that does a
much better job supporting DOS hardware which I can install FreeDOS onto?
That's probably the ultimate solution for those of us not installing FreeDOS on
actual hardware, which is a constantly growing base and if not the majority
yet, will be soon.
The solutions like DOSBox and 86Box are self-contained virtual hardware/OS
solutions but was hoping for an improvement over Virtualbox or VMWare I can
install FreeDOS onto.
Steve
Hi Steve
Yes, installing FreeDOS on a PC emulator or virtual machine is a very
common way to run FreeDOS. Which PC emulator to run is likely going to
be down to personal preference and whatever platform you are running.
We link to several PC emulators / virtual machines from the FreeDOS
Links page:
https://www.freedos.org/links/
VirtualBox
http://www.virtualbox.org/
QEMU
http://www.qemu-project.org/
GNOME Boxes (only for Linux with GNOME desktop; uses QEMU as a back-end)
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes
PCem
http://pcem-emulator.co.uk/
86Box
https://github.com/86Box/86Box
DOSEMU2 (only for Linux)
https://github.com/stsp/dosemu2
Or if you want to run FreeDOS in a web browser: jslinux (javascript)
https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=https://bellard.org/jslinux/freedos.cfg&mem=64&graphic=1&w=720&h=400
If you're asking for my personal preference: I used to run VirtualBox
until a few years ago, then I switched to QEMU. I run Fedora Linux
with the GNOME desktop, and QEMU works very well there. But QEMU has a
lot of command line options - you "build" your virtual machine by
assembling different options for the network card, C: drive, CDROM,
etc. So the command line can get long. I wrote an article about it
here:
https://opensource.com/article/17/10/run-dos-applications-linux
Jim
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For folks who don't mind living on the bleeding edge, 86Box provides
test builds at http://ci.86box.net/job/86Box-Optimized ...those are
builds optimized for most modern cpus, grouped by generation (core2,
nehalem, sandybridge, etc).
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