Original message from Eric Auer, 2016-06-20 19:47: > Hi Herr or Frau Beitrag! > >> I wonder if it was possible to include the guest integration drivers for >> Virtual PC, VirtualBox, QEMU (are there any?), Hyper-V in a provided VHD > Eduardo Casino has written VMSMOUNT in 2011 :-) It lets you > mount VMWare shared directories as a FreeDOS drive letter :-)
This would be very useful to include. > I guess it would also be possible to do something fancy for > mouse support. DOS does not have a built-in clipboard, so a > guest driver for that would have to do something else, such > as Linux style "mark to put into clipboard, use middle mouse > button to paste clipboard contents into keyboard buffer" but > I am not aware of such guest drivers for DOS yet. Same for > the possibility of guest graphics drivers, where DOS has to > rely on the BIOS and hardware VGA / VESA emulation instead. I was not only thinking about VGA/VESA drivers, but mostly about the correct mouse setup and maybe some addition drivers like the correct (SCSI or ATAPI) CD-ROM drivers and sound drivers. If I remember correctly, Virtual PC emulates a standard ATAPI CD-ROM drive. The sound emulation is a SoundBlaster 16. So it would be wise to include drivers for the Sound Blaster. But again: what about the license of those DOS drivers? > Are there any Virtual PC, Virtual Box or QEMU specific guest > drivers for FreeDOS? I just assume that the DOS drivers will also work on FreeDOS. (They were developed for IBM DOS/PC DOS and MS-DOS.) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/824967 >> I don't think DOSBox requires a virtual hard disk image at all. > Yes and no. You can put your DOS games in a directory to let > DOSBox open them, but if you want to use FreeDOS kernel and > drivers, you probably have to use a disk image? The "normal" > style of DOSBox is that the whole DOS is a built-in illusion. > > If you do not need fancy drivers and want to work mainly with > the DOSBox built-in stuff, a similar strategy as for DOSEMU > is probably easier: Ship FreeDOS as a directory ready to be > dropped in a shared directory C: "drive" for DOSBox? This is the first time I hear about running actual DOS (the kernel) or its tools inside DOSBox. Most of this stuff isn't required and why would someone try to start a DOS kernel if DOS is already running? Cheers, userbeitrag ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. http://sdm.link/zohomanageengine _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
