Hi!

Successful update.

No need for call ver.  Just needed to add vmadd386.sys to the config.
However, it doesn't work in option 2.  I had to add this line:
4?Device=C:\Dosadd\vmadd386.sys

Nice, but which drivers are loaded in option 4 and which in option 2?

What does the documentation say about VMADD386.SYS and FSHARE, which
are their requirements? Do they need HIMEM or EMM386? Or are they
usable only WITHOUT any EMM386, for example?

I could imagine that option 2 involves EMM386 style drivers which
can have compatibility issues with some things. Note that in OTHER
cases, you actually NEED an EMM386 style driver to do some magic:

https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=23369&page=0&order=time&category=0

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1418209#p1418209

But of course that is not related to vmadd386 at all ;-)

I am also tryin out win 3.xx and also curious about 95 to see how they
might work.  So far Win3.11 just locks up the live system (usb 2605
testing).

You probably mean Windows for Workgroups 3.11, not the year 2000
update for standard Windows 3.1: In both cases, you are probably
trying to use the 386enh (-anced) mode, which has high compatibility
requirements. In WfW 3.11, the non-386enh mode is similar to the
safe mode in Win95 and Win98, so people prefer not to use it. In
Win 3.1, 386enh mode just gives you extra features, but you can
easily use Win 3.1 in standard mode :-)

Either way, you will have to carefully select drivers, kernel
version and configuration options to make WfW 3.11 work. For
example it may need a specific version of HIMEM, SHARE, EMM386
or fail to run if you have too much RAM installed. Which you
could fake with the FreeDOS drivers, but Windows might rely
on using the MS drivers bundled with Windows. It could also
have problems with EMM386 or caches. You could try a FAT16
partition and use command line options for Windows to tell it
to not try funny things with the harddisk controller. Instead,
it should use the more compatible but slower BIOS.

Regards, Eric

PS: The thread Tomas mentioned talks about alternative
VirtualBOX, not VirtualPC drivers, for shared folders
and mouse drivers for DOS and Windows 3. Sounds useful,
but not Virtual PC compatible, I believe? :-)




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