Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-05-06 Thread Eric Auer
From: Eric Auer Hi Eduardo, > 2017-02-03 Ralf Quint: >> Well, that works only with VMware, but unfortunately not with >> VirtualBox, AFAIK. > Right. As with drivers for other things, it would still be good to include vmsmount for those who use vmware to run FreeDOS :-)

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-05-06 Thread Ralf Quint
From: Ralf Quint On 2/3/2017 12:59 AM, Eduardo Casino wrote: > I started a VirtualBox version a couple of years ago, but I lost > interest in it. Maybe one day... Well, despite being "from Oracle" these, days, it is the best "freely available" hypervisor out there. The

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-05-06 Thread Ralf Quint
From: Ralf Quint On 2/2/2017 10:17 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > By the way, it would be nice to include VMSMOUNT which lets > DOS mount VMWare shared directories as drives, similar to > the magic "directory as a drive" function in DOSEMU. Both > require no network drivers at all,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-05-06 Thread Ulrich Hansen
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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-05-06 Thread Eduardo Casino
From: Eduardo Casino 2017-02-03 12:29 GMT+01:00 Eric Auer : > That sounds interesting! How far did you get, what is needed? Hi Eric, The low level pci interface is there, as well as some initialisation stuff and code taken from vmsmount. All the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-05-06 Thread Eduardo Casino
From: Eduardo Casino 2017-02-03 1:16 GMT+01:00 Ralf Quint : > Well, that works only with VMware, but unfortunately not with > VirtualBox, AFAIK. Right. > Otherwise, that would be my preferred method, similar to how you can > share data with the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-05-06 Thread Ralf Quint
From: Ralf Quint On 2/2/2017 1:24 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > Hmm. YouAve got a point. The thing is: FTPSRV was for some years the > fastest way of getting files in and out of the FreeDOS guest. So I > considered it something most people would want, also in the anormalo >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-05-06 Thread Ulrich Hansen
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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-05-06 Thread Ralf Quint
From: Ralf Quint On 2/1/2017 9:21 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > I also had time to update my VirtualBox images of FreeDOS. So if > anybody liked these images in the past: Here are the new ones: :-) > > https://www.lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox/ And to add to my last

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-05-06 Thread Ralf Quint
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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-02-04 Thread Eduardo Casino
2017-02-03 12:29 GMT+01:00 Eric Auer : > That sounds interesting! How far did you get, what is needed? Hi Eric, The low level pci interface is there, as well as some initialisation stuff and code taken from vmsmount. All the shared folders protocol is missing, so there is

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-02-03 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/3/2017 12:59 AM, Eduardo Casino wrote: > I started a VirtualBox version a couple of years ago, but I lost > interest in it. Maybe one day... Well, despite being "from Oracle" these, days, it is the best "freely available" hypervisor out there. The VMware stuff is all for pay these days, and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-02-03 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/3/2017 5:02 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > >>> 2017-02-03 Ralf Quint: >> Well, that works only with VMware, but unfortunately not with VirtualBox, AFAIK. >> >>> Right. >> >> As with drivers for other things, it would still be good to >> include vmsmount for those who use vmware to run

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-02-03 Thread Ulrich Hansen
>> 2017-02-03 Ralf Quint: > >>> Well, that works only with VMware, but unfortunately not with >>> VirtualBox, AFAIK. > >> Right. > > As with drivers for other things, it would still be good to > include vmsmount for those who use vmware to run FreeDOS :-) Vmware uses vmdk images, my

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-02-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Eduardo, > 2017-02-03 Ralf Quint: >> Well, that works only with VMware, but unfortunately not with >> VirtualBox, AFAIK. > Right. As with drivers for other things, it would still be good to include vmsmount for those who use vmware to run FreeDOS :-) >> Otherwise, that would be my

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-02-03 Thread Eduardo Casino
2017-02-03 1:16 GMT+01:00 Ralf Quint : > Well, that works only with VMware, but unfortunately not with > VirtualBox, AFAIK. Right. > Otherwise, that would be my preferred method, similar to how you can > share data with the host in DOSBox/VDOS... I started a VirtualBox

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-02-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi everybody, I agree with Ralf - it is not intuitive that a non-network operating system installs a network, even if it is only for FTP file exchange. I think those who do want to use network tools to communicate between host OS and a virtual PC with FreeDOS inside will be able to deliberately

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-02-02 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/2/2017 1:24 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > Hmm. You’ve got a point. The thing is: FTPSRV was for some years the > fastest way of getting files in and out of the FreeDOS guest. So I > considered it something most people would want, also in the „normal“ > image without additional networking

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-02-02 Thread Ulrich Hansen
> Am 02.02.2017 um 08:57 schrieb Ralf Quint : > Well,... >> Not Found >> Oh, sorry. I forgot to change one of the two links there. Thanks!! I repaired it. > On the side for the version supposedly without network, you are talking an > awful lot about the networking stuff

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-02-02 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/1/2017 9:21 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > I also had time to update my VirtualBox images of FreeDOS. So if > anybody liked these images in the past: Here are the new ones: :-) > > https://www.lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox/ And to add to my last email, the supposedly non-network image

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-02-01 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/1/2017 9:21 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: I also had time to update my VirtualBox images of FreeDOS. So if anybody liked these images in the past: Here are the new ones: :-) https://www.lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox/ Well,... On the side for the version supposedly without network, you