There is one thing I noticed just now again with vbox in Win and vdi and 774 MB RAM (was because of virus testing, will reduce).
In vbox you can move out of FD window with right CTRL-Button and go in again with moving the mouse over the FD window and enter a left mouse click.
Doing so usually works fine, but from a certain point on this does no longer work, means: FD keyboard and mouse seem to work no longer, but you can
type right CTRL-Button and you are out of FD window and can use it again. This effect often happened to me when writing on thelp in Win and testing if FD
really behaves the way that I described in the help.
I will try to find out more.
Willi
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 12:54 PM
From: "Jerome Shidel" <jer...@shidel.net>
To: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Virtual Woes
From: "Jerome Shidel" <jer...@shidel.net>
To: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Virtual Woes
Hi Willi,
On Mar 28, 2023, at 5:45 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl <wilhelm.spi...@mail.com> wrote:
It is possible that those are problems with Edit. But, they could be related to VM compatibility.
If/When the VM successfully boots the default menu option with all standard drivers loaded, it will run without issue. It will do that for hours or days. Capable or running numerous programs without a problem.
At least until a reboot is performed. During a reboot, there intermittent freezes and crashes during boot. The frequency of such problems greatly increase when a different boot option is selected.
If the VM successfully reboots, it will continue to operate fine.
As for the random freeze after booting, it only seems to occur with the default install when option 4 is selected.
As with any other boot option, rebooting the VM is subject to the aforementioned crash and freeze problems.
But, if/when option 4 successfully boots and no drivers are loaded, you don’t need to do anything other than wait. No programs need launched. Just wait.
Eventually, FreeCOM will become completely unresponsive. The cursor will continue to flash. But, there will be no response to any keyboard input. This includes the VM equivalent to pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL.
Since no drivers are loaded, that freeze is possibly related to the freeze that can occur on the boot menu itself.
I don’t think a list of freezing programs would help much at this point. Any programs that may freeze could be related to the above issues and not a problem with the program itself.
I might be beneficial to figure out which driver or combination of drivers or even boot order of drivers that menu option 2 under VirtualBox prevents the eventual freeze that is encountered with boot option 4. Knowing that may help figure out why option 4 freezes and possibly how to fix or work around the problem.
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> On Mar 28, 2023, at 4:19 AM, Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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> 5. Under VirtualBox I sometimes get diced CHS values for the disks. Reboot and you get other values if using VHD disk images. Did not investigate it further, but sticking to VDI disk images worked around it.
Win, Lin, Mac?
Interesting.
I just stick with flat VMDK disk images. They are easily used with other Virtual Machine Platforms like VMware. Also with a slight tweak to the config file (renaming the actual disk image extension to IMG), they are directly mountable on a Mac (and Linux) host system.
Maybe, I’ll switch to using VDI and see if issues 1-4 still occur intermittently.
Maybe not. It’s mostly just annoying when doing development/testing that needs done outside of DOSBox.
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>> Am 28.03.2023 um 01:44 schrieb jer...@shidel.net:
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>> I really don’t have the time to try and figure it out beyond noticing the couple symptoms I have encountered. And, they don’t always happen. The most frequent is switching boot options on reboot. But, even that is intermittent.
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