Brett, I'm going to make this really simple ... you are using the word "virtual" in an overly generalized sense. That is not compatible with highly technical discussions, wherever everybody needs to use the same terminology in order to be understood and make progress.
This is really simple - the vast majority of us know a "virtual machine" to be a fairly realistic simulation of an actual machine, either all in software or possibly hardware assisted. But the key point is that the loaded software doesn't have to know or change. You run real DOS even if the machine you run it in is not real. DOSBox is a DOS emulator by its own description. It does not emulate Ctrl-Break handling. It presents a filesystem that is built on-top of the native filesystem of the OS hosting the emulator. It doesn't try to do a lot of things correctly, and it doesn't care. It runs enough DOS to make most games work, and that's their mission. You can't refer to DOSBox or other things like it as virtual machines and expect to be understood. That's the bottom line. -Mike
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