Hi, On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Jack <gykazequ...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > I do not use and do not want VirtualBox, after all its problems as > users have noted on this list!
It still more or less works (overall). ;-) > However, if you do want to go on > using it, I would seriously "gripe" to Oracle (or its maintainers, > whoever they might be!) Yes, Oracle is in charge, but I don't know if that means allocating developers or funds or whatnot. It's GPL, though, so presumably anybody can contribute (but it sounds very hard to recompile, ugh). > that if VirtualBox now FAILS a 17-year-old > test for the PCI BIOS, they need to DO SOMETHING about it, QUICK! Well, Oracle (and Sun before them) typically didn't test DOS as much, if at all. In fact, DOS support is quite buggy there, sometimes more with VT-X, sometimes less. It just depends, really. The fact of the matter is that they seem to specifically test Solaris (natch), Linux, and Windows. Actually, I know (but haven't used) OS/2 and FreeBSD ports exist too, but I didn't see any mention lately on their page. Oh well, it's tricky stuff, and maybe they're too busy. So it's not a huge priority for them (apparently) to support BIOS and 16-bit stuff. (As you know, 64-bit is considered more important these days.) P.S. My bug report (1.5 years ago) of D3X + Wolf4GW not working under VT-X was never commented on. Who knows, maybe it's fixed now (though I can't test since that laptop died). Alas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention Research study explores the data loss prevention market. Includes in-depth analysis on the changes within the DLP market, and the criteria used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these DLP solutions. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51385063/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
