Hello Kaya,

  Let me suggest an idea, alternative to those discussed before.

  Can you check whether the "DOS-looking application" is really
a pure MS-DOS (compatible) application, or if it is a Windows
remake of one? If it is pure MS-DOS app, you can get away by
running a DOS VM without Windows licensing and security issues.

  For an MS-DOS app you can try the free x86/DOS "virtualization
platform" DOSBox (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/ or
http://www.dosbox.com/) which notably allows running many
ancient games (including networking like IPX).

  This program is open-sourced and can be compiled on a huge
variety of systems, and it completely emulates an x86 CPU
(so DOS games can be run on SPARC for example).

  If this does indeed work for you, and if you fine-tune the
DOSbox VM's CPU cycles in particular (balance responsiveness
versus host CPU thrashing), you can run the application on
your Sun Ray server directly. (Well, almost directly).

  Alternatively, you can test whether VirtualBox allows MSDOS
guests - that may have less overhead...


-- 
Best regards,
 Jim Klimov                            mailto:[email protected]

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