On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 20, 2012 12:00 PM, "Ralf A. Quint" <free...@gmx.net> wrote

>> Anyway you slice it, that Virtual Box (and probably a few other VMs)
>> are not properly supporting this is rather due to the ignorance of
>> those VM developers and the stupid attitude of "nobody is using
>> floppy disks anymore". It is a very well known function, relatively
>> easy to implement, so it should be up to the VM developers to do so...
>
> More likely that DOS is much less of a priority to them. After all, it is
> called Oracle VirtualBox these days, so who knows if they are paid by them
> or what. So clearly their priorities lie moreso with Solaris, Linux,
> Windows, etc. (judging from their changelogs).

Exactly.  VirtualBox was a Sun project, and Oracle bought Sun.

But creating a virtual machine is highly complex.  Developer's
priorities are (and *should* be) supporting the OSes that people are
likely to *run*  in VMs.  These days, that's Windows, Linux, and OS/X.

And the people who still use floppies are an increasingly small
number.  Even CDs are on the way you, replaced by DVDs which have far
larger capacities.  The last time I used a floppy was as a boot disk
on an ancient notebook to do an OS install.  For the things I used to
use floppies for, like transferring files between computers that
weren't networked, I use USB thumb drives.

But Virtual Box is *open source*.  You can get the code.  You can
submit a patch to fix things that are broken, and add support that
isn't there.

The number of people who still run DOS is a vanishingly small fraction
of the number of people who use computers.  The number who run DOS in
a virtual machine is a small fraction of that number.  The number of
people trying to run FreeDOS under Virtual Box can probably be counted
on the fingers of two hands with change left over.  How much should
the Virtual Box devs *care* about that?  (The answer is "They
*shouldn't*.  They have far more important priorities.")

If you need floppy change support in Virtual Box that badly, do it
yourself.  Get the code and submit a patch to add it.  No one else has
a good reason to do it for you.
______
Dennis
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519

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