Source: wine Version: 1.6.2-22 Severity: normal WINE includes 'NTVDM' support for running DOS programs within the same filesystem namespace as the Win32/Win64 programs. It prefers to use DOSBox for this, but if not then the i386 build will try to use VM86.
I will be disabling VM86 in Debian i386 kernels starting with Linux 4.1 (see #792003). It has never been available on amd64 kernels. I also suspect that use of VM86 for DOS emulation depends on being able to map low memory addresses, which has long been disabled by default to mitigate the security impact of null pointer dereferences in the kernel. Certainly dosemu doesn't use VM86 in this case. Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org