Re: [Freedos-user] Question about Virtual Box performance.

2007-07-05 Thread Giorgos
THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your comments!!! Regards!!! Giorgos. :-) - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Cl

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about Virtual Box performance.

2007-07-05 Thread Norbert Remmel
> One should keep in mind, that Microsoft indeed has changed the VirtualPC >>from their first version (2004) on - we used the pre-Microsoft version > of that tool for a DOS based software and Novell Netware connector. > Starting with VirtualPC (from Microsoft) the network speed reduces > dramat

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about Virtual Box performance.

2007-07-05 Thread Norbert Remmel
> does 2004's extensions work on virtual PC 2007? Yes, it does. Keep in mind, that you load these shared folder drivers included in VPC 2004 before any emm386 in config.sys. Otherwise you will get an exception error. - This

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about Virtual Box performance.

2007-07-05 Thread Daniel Franzini
does 2004's extensions work on virtual PC 2007? sounds interesting.altough writing a driver would be quite fun, i have some other DOS-related projects i'm involved in and it is really painfull to work on these without shared folders... WOW, i've found that i have a installer for the 2004 vers

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about Virtual Box performance.

2007-07-04 Thread Marten Feldtmann
One should keep in mind, that Microsoft indeed has changed the VirtualPC from their first version (2004) on - we used the pre-Microsoft version of that tool for a DOS based software and Novell Netware connector. Starting with VirtualPC (from Microsoft) the network speed reduces dramatically ...

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about Virtual Box performance.

2007-07-04 Thread Norbert Remmel
Hi Daniel, > i'm also in the quest of writing > a driver for FreeDOS in order to allow one to use the shared folders > (it seems that no VM has shared folders for FreeDOS at all...at least > in my experience: VirtualBOX, VirtualPC and VMWare don't have > it) VirtualPC used to have it in the past

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about Virtual Box performance.

2007-07-04 Thread Norbert Remmel
Hi Giorgos, Virtual Box is working well. It is fast - nearly as fast as virtual pc 2007. In emulating FreeDOS there is no problem at all. There seem to be some issues with acpi but that is irrelevant for using freedos in most cases. The binary you can get from virtualbox.org is only free for priv

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about Virtual Box performance.

2007-07-04 Thread Alain M.
I never used Virtual Box, but I can say this: VMware is very good, *except* for DOS graphics programs. graphics screen is very slow. With Win98 and a special drivers it is good. Network is ok, I could only share folders as network disks. Qemu is faster for graphics in DOS. It has some limit

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about Virtual Box performance.

2007-07-04 Thread Daniel Franzini
On 7/4/07, Giorgos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi!!! :-) > hi > Is someone here, familiar with it? what do you take for familiar? i have used it sometimes and it worked fine to me...Win95 for basic stuffi'm also in the quest of writing a driver for FreeDOS in order to allow one to use the

[Freedos-user] Question about Virtual Box performance.

2007-07-04 Thread Giorgos
Hi!!! :-) I read yesterday, a mail from chieffy (from FSM) to FSM subscribers, that points at these pages: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/using_virtualbox_to_run_ubuntu http://digg.com/linux_unix/Using_VirtualBox_to_run_Ubuntu_and_any_other_operating_system It refers to http://virt