On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 7:41 AM <st...@vwebr.net> wrote: > > Asking the question a different way. > > Is there another virtual app (alternatives to Virtualbox or VMWare) that does > a much better job supporting DOS hardware which I can install FreeDOS onto? > > That's probably the ultimate solution for those of us not installing FreeDOS > on actual hardware, which is a constantly growing base and if not the > majority yet, will be soon. > > The solutions like DOSBox and 86Box are self-contained virtual hardware/OS > solutions but was hoping for an improvement over Virtualbox or VMWare I can > install FreeDOS onto. > > Steve >
Hi Steve Yes, installing FreeDOS on a PC emulator or virtual machine is a very common way to run FreeDOS. Which PC emulator to run is likely going to be down to personal preference and whatever platform you are running. We link to several PC emulators / virtual machines from the FreeDOS Links page: https://www.freedos.org/links/ VirtualBox http://www.virtualbox.org/ QEMU http://www.qemu-project.org/ GNOME Boxes (only for Linux with GNOME desktop; uses QEMU as a back-end) https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes PCem http://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ 86Box https://github.com/86Box/86Box DOSEMU2 (only for Linux) https://github.com/stsp/dosemu2 Or if you want to run FreeDOS in a web browser: jslinux (javascript) https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=https://bellard.org/jslinux/freedos.cfg&mem=64&graphic=1&w=720&h=400 If you're asking for my personal preference: I used to run VirtualBox until a few years ago, then I switched to QEMU. I run Fedora Linux with the GNOME desktop, and QEMU works very well there. But QEMU has a lot of command line options - you "build" your virtual machine by assembling different options for the network card, C: drive, CDROM, etc. So the command line can get long. I wrote an article about it here: https://opensource.com/article/17/10/run-dos-applications-linux Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
