John, Maybe you could help us by being very specific with what worked and what went wrong? The only thing I could gather from your message was that it was difficult to do, and it was slow.
One thing that is essential for good performance is to ensure that your host machine is new enough to support the virtual processor extensions in the CPU. If it does not, then the virtual machine gets emulated one instruction at a time. This is orders of magnitude slower than if you can use the virtual processor extensions. My 3 year old Intel i5 Quad Core chip is fine, but modern Atom processors do not have the extensions. Any virtual machine (FreeDOS or otherwise) will be painful without them. It sounds like your machine has the processor extensions, but you need to ensure they are enabled in the BIOS. Even if you do not use the power saving TSRs or programs that are power aware, the worst that will happen is that the virtual machine running FreeDOS will use one of the host CPU cores. For a desktop system this is not a major problem. On a laptop it will shorten battery life. You have a wide variety of TSRs to choose from - FDAPM and DOSIDLE are my favorites so far. Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
