Hello,

> Before I loose hours trying to get this to work this weekend. Would
> anyone know about getting freedos to recognize USB security dongles?

that's easy: ANYDOS does nothing about USB, and neither USB security
dongles.



> I use a HASP USB security dongle to activate an old software
> program. I want to run that program from FreeDOS running in a
> Virtualbox VM.

does it run from MSDOS on real hardware?
does it run from FreeDOS on real hardware?

only then should you start to try things in a VM (of whatever kind).


> Lets say I connect the USB dongle to my Win 10 host that is running
> the VM. Will the FreeDOS OS (or the OS could maybe be Win 7 instead)
> running in the VM be able to see that HASP USB security dongle and
> the program running in that VM get activated for use?

how about asking this to product support; either HASP or the
originating company?





> From my reading it can be done in Virtualbox

VirtualBox can indeed forward USB devices to the VM. if this is
compatible enough to run *cryptic* dongles should be a question to
HASP, not us.

> but not sure if
> freedos will recognize the usb drivers
'the usb drivers'?

you could have tried this by now.

Bye.

Tom






> or would I need to install
> them in the guest as well as the host which will be Win 10.


> Cheers,


> Sean

> On Fri 4 Mar 2022, 11:54 tom ehlert, <[email protected]> wrote:



 >>> I was referring to the recommendation of using a "folder" as a drive under
 >>> DOSEMU.  I don't believe that solution supports multiple node access to the
 >>> same folder.
 >>> 
 >>> SMB (i.e. MSCLIENT and Samba) were designed for this use case.

 >> What makes you think so?

>  Just because it's true? in MSDOS at least.
>  However I have no idea if that is even implemented in FreeDOS, or
>  DOSEMU.

 >> Concurrent access to files is something already handled by SHARE
>  SHARE is all about access to *local* files, on the FreeDOS machine, and
>  has absolutely nothing to do with sharing remote files.


>  Tom



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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards
Tom Ehlert
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