> Hi Gerard,

Hi Eric,

> as you can much easier start multiple instances of Dosemu, it
> is unnecessary work to add a VMM to FreeDOS. Just use the one
> of Linux to run multiple Dosemus... However, file locking and
> sharing in Dosemu could be improved for that style of use.

Sure - if you're running Linux already, in whatever distribution you favour.
My idea was to strip this down to something where you have a "VM-wrapper"
that automatically starts a number of Dosemu sessions, without all the admin
load of Linux behind it. Kind of what CP/M-86 did: with Alt-Tab-F1 ...
Alt-Tab-F4 you could switch between ten different sessions. 

Of course, if you have Linux, you can (should) use Linux for this. But if
all you need is a VMM and not a completely new underlying OS (with issues no
"average" DOS user would even start worrying about - think of different file
systems, daemons, runlevels etc.), then some lean and mean "VM-wrapper"
could be a nifty "add-on" to FreeDOS.

> You can always add "start Dosemu" to your .bashrc to automatically
> start Dos on login. I think you do have telnet for Dos, and I believe
> you even have X for Dos or at least VNC for Dos (not sure, could be
> for Win 3 - at least for Win 95, you have it for sure and free).

Well, perhaps my call was a bit of a quickshot - I immediately got reminded
of Kermit for DOS (and Windows 3.x):

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/mskermit.html

Personal experience from my side though: zero. Will try it out over the
holidays - any avid FreeDOSers that have been using Kermit so far? Perhaps
even connecting to Linux machines that use Dosemu as a shell? With a shared
directory structure between all DOS clients on that machine? Plus Windows
shares via Samba being included?

Just to hear and read what's tried and tested (did I say that I love links
to webpages? ;-)).

> Eric.

Gerard

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