Actually, no you cannot as i need to run things.
If Linux is the host, I have no way to use my screen readers and
Required hardware synthesizer.
With Linux as a stand alone box, I can concentrate on the non graphical
shell, with all the configurations it needs, and ssh into it from DOS, on
its own.
So, two different machines..which I have the hardware for now.
And, the memory should be gigabytes, smiles.
Kare
On Thu, 22 Oct 2026, [email protected] wrote:
On Thu, Oct 22, 2026 at 09:43:50AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
Even if DOS can be made to run in a VM and support Karen's hardware the
simplest and best solution for her is to keep her DOS system as is and
run Linux on a headless system that she accesses via ssh. Moving her DOS
system into a VM would be unnecessarily complex and disruptive. The
hardware she has proposed will be fine for what she needs.
Yes, but both can run on the same hardware: for that, you can have
DOS run as a process in the Linux box (using the Linux as a fancy
boot loader of sorts), but then ssh from DOS into the "mothership".
Whether that arrangement suits Karen's needs or not is difficult
to say.
Cheers
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tom??s
