Hi, I missed the fun of this thread, but I guess Kirl may mean Microsoft's VMM.
Opinions may vary, for many DOS is exclusively 16-bit, but in my opinion, VMM+VsDs is DOS too (VDOS, VFAT, VREDIR... all are the 32-bit versions of DOS concepts). The fact that Microsoft did sell them attached to Windows9X rather than DOS is to me a commercial strategy to make people switch from DOS to Windows[NT]. After all, they are software components that could have been easily disaggregated from Windows (that starts with KRNL386.EXE), and thus provide a multitasking virtual-memory version of DOS, where other GUI makers could have profited from. (I ignore where the EXE/PE loading bit is, if it is in VDOS, we could even have had DLL's in DOS). The fun bit is, did someone REALLY ask you Jim to port DOS to a Samsung Watch? I have one. As you can attach no keyboard, I suppose he meant by a voice interface, like: "Siri, COPY C:\*.* D:" Fun if I could just shout at my watch (or even my PC) to do that. Aitor On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 at 15:51, Liam Proven via Freedos-devel < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 at 04:07, Kirn Gill via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > VMM, anyone? > > What do you mean by this? > > By "VMM" do you mean the virt-manager front-end to KVM/Xen? > > https://virt-manager.org/ > > As in, run FreeDOS under KVM? Or, "we should port virt-manager to FreeDOS?" > > Or, do you mean "we need a virtual-machine manager for DOS?" > > I can't realistically see how that could be done, but as some vast > effort, I suppose it could be possible. > > Or, do you mean "we need a way to run FreeDOS under KVM?" > > Perhaps as a way around UEFI? That is doable. > > HP distributes what it _calls_ FreeDOS but is actually an old version > of Debian, configured to boot silently, start QEMU, start FreeDOS > inside QEMU and display just that: > > > https://blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-very-weird-hewlett-packard-freedos-option/ > > If you mean "FreeDOS should offer a VM-based solution so it can be run > on UEFI machines" then maybe yes, a Devuan+FreeDOS (or some > lighter-weight Linux, say Alpine or TCL or something, distro would be > interesting... but complicated to achieve. > > -- > Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com > Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven > IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 > Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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