Why? Every emulator or VM I know about will quickly install any operating system from a virtual CD-ROM. So if you just assign the FreeDOS-ISO as the virtual ATAPI-CDROM you will very easily install it to the virtual Hard Disk Drive, which will be either .VHD, .VHDX (Virtual PC and Hyper-V), .VMDK (VMware), .QCOW (QEMU) or .VDI (VirtualBox). Or any other format.
A prepared installation will not help alot, aside from you not being completely aware, which installation was used (full installation, partial installation, which packages). Also, for each emulator or VM you will require different hardware drivers (for the virtual hardware) and integration drivers (for guest integration). Therefor I would suggest to better add an installation package for FreeDOS as a guest operating system under various emulators and VMs. A user could then just install FreeDOS and select "guest drivers and tools" as an additional package, which would then ask "a) Virtual PC, b) Hyper-V, c) VMware, d) VirtualBox, e) QEMU" and install+setup the required stuff for you. I write this because this is my experience. Installing an OS on a virtual PC is easy, getting the drivers set up sometimes is hard work, because you have to find those drivers first. Including them as an installation package would be sufficiently easy for uses IMHO. Just my 2ยข. Cheers, userbeitrag Original message from Don Flowers, 2016-06-20 20:45: > That would be awesome! > > It seems that this would be an alternative to vDOS? > https://www.vdos.info/ > https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdos/ > > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org > <mailto:jh...@freedos.org>> wrote: > > Jim Hall wrote: > >>> I'm building the new website. I'll update the notice to encourage new > >>> users to install FreeDOS in a virtual machine. > > Tom Ehlert wrote: > >> any reason why we don't provide ready to run virtual machines as .VHD > >> images? > > Jim Hall wrote: > >> Hmm... I don't know why we haven't. I don't know anything about VHD > >> though. Is that a standard virtual disk image that any PC > >> emulator/virtual machine can read? Can free/open source software > >> virtual machines read these (or create them)? > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de > <mailto:t...@drivesnapshot.de>> wrote: > > > > .VHD is a fairly generic virtual *disk* format, and most virtual > > machines providers should be able to read them. > > > > a tiny bit more specialized are the virtual machine configuration > > files, but we should be able to provide multiple formats, for Virtual > > Box, DosBox, HyperV, ... > > > > still no rocket science, and no risk to damage user data. > > > Thanks for the pointer. I'll see if I can output a VHD from QEMU. If I > can, I'll post a default install of FreeDOS 1.1 to our ibiblio archive > and link to it. I'll do the same when 1.2 is out. > > Reference: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHD_(file_format) > "VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) is a file format which represents a virtual > hard disk drive (HDD). It may contain what is found on a physical HDD, > such as disk partitions and a file system, which in turn can contain > files and folders. It is typically used as the hard disk of a virtual > machine. The format was created by Connectix for their Virtual PC > product, known as Microsoft Virtual PC since Microsoft acquired > Connectix in 2003. Since June 2005, Microsoft has made the VHD Image > Format Specification available to third parties under the Microsoft > Open Specification Promise." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
