Hello, All!
I was trying out both Bochs and Plex86 for the last couple of days and
I have several questions to ask re: both, but primarily re: Plex.
1) I have tried the following oses so far:
FreeDos
Win98/DOS
Win95
QNX
PicoBSD
tomsrtbt
AtheOS
They work more or less acceptably under Bochs (win95 works great, except
after an emergency shutdown it tries to run scandisk anf crashed Bochs
with "can't read() hard drive image file". How can I stop Scandisk from
running ?:)). However, I can't get almost any of these to boot under
Plex, although I have played with them for 16 hours non-stop......The
only exceptions are DOS and FreeDos. Even those when run, run so much
slower...I caught the wind of an idea about turning of prescanning stuff
for the sake of speed, but how would I do that and how (if at all) would
it improve speed?
2) I would really like to mess with networking in Plex (at the user
level at this point). AFAIU, only FreeBSD networking stuff is there,
although Plex doesn't compile yet on FreeBSD. Well, I was thinking in
terms of "sheepnet" driver supplied with Basilisk (Mac emulator). It's
kind of like a packet mover, although not quite. If I understand
correctly, they (Basilisk) used a similar idea as VMWare folks about
having both host-side and guest side parts and "just" copying packets
over pipe or a socket or whatever (that would make portablility more
difficult). That way implementation of the NIC can be two-fold: a packet
driver generic to plex and plugin-like device emulator talking to that
packet mover. Does all that make any sense?
The reason I want to work with Plex is because I'm doing some USB/video
development for Linux and to me plex seems the best environment for
USB-bus snooping, although USB emulation will probably take a while to
implement, even in it's present form it's very interesting to me.
Thank you developer guys for wonderful job you've done and thank you
beforehand for you answers to my questions.
Sincerely,
Mark Gimelfarb.
