Hi Kevin!
Kevin Lawton wrote:
>
> Another milestone along the way. I have plex86 booting FreeDOS.
> See attached GIF. Boots from both the floppy and hard drive
> emulation. Keystrokes are fine, and I was able to type
> in simple commands etc. Haven't tried anything major yet.
>
> So to recap, for any new folks, we have our 32-bit protected-mode
> test guest kernels working:
>
> cooperative
> preemptive
> paging-enabled
>
> and now real-mode guests MS DOS 6.22 and FreeDOS (latest
> stable from their web site).
>
> I will be cleaning up my code now, and releasing directly to
> CVS tagged as version 0.1.0, by say Monday.
>
> Next on my agenda:
>
> - Fill out more emulation of instructions, so when virtualization
> conditions hit, you won't get a panic.
> - Implement RM->PM transitions, so you can use a real bootloader
> to load a guest.
> - Get Linux booting.
> - Get Windows booting
>
> -Kevin
>
>
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Way too Cool! Thanks again! WoW!
James
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