Re: [Freedos-user] Dosemu on its own - does it exist?

2020-09-03 Thread TK Chia
Hello ZB, Actually I was hoping it could be "thinner layer"... but, as I wrote, only know I'm trying to find out, how exactly "virtual x86 mode" works Basically --- as Eric Auer sort of explained --- a "virtual 8086" is a special kind of unprivileged protected-mode task, that runs under a

Re: [Freedos-user] Dosemu on its own - does it exist?

2020-09-03 Thread ZB
On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 12:52:32PM -0400, dmccunney wrote: > What you are talking about are full blown Virtual Machine setups. The > VM sits between the host machine's hardware and the OS to be > virtualized. Examples in the commercial software world include things > like VMWare Actually I was

Re: [Freedos-user] Dosemu on its own - does it exist?

2020-09-03 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 9:50 AM ZB wrote: > > If I'm correct, Dosemu uses "virtual x86 mode" of 386 and later processors. > But Dosemu of course needs "host OS". > > I wonder does there exist any utility that offers "virtual x86 mode" and > acts as "host" by itself? Suppose we have (quite modest