Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox

2022-04-26 Thread Liam Proven
On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 02:34, jkendzi wrote: > > I am trying to setup a shared folder between my VirtualBox/FreeDOS and my > /home/documents folder. > > I am having difficulty with this setup, is there another way to access a > folder on the host or another attached drive to the host? I have sp

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox

2022-04-26 Thread Eduardo Casino
> I don't think VMware has DOS guest additions. > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.3/pkg-html/vmsmount.html Regards, Eduardo > ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourcefo

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox

2022-04-26 Thread Liam Proven
On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 12:25, Eduardo Casino wrote: > >> I don't think VMware has DOS guest additions. > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.3/pkg-html/vmsmount.html Very terse. Me gusta mucho. :-) OK, so I think I was not technically wrong, VMware does not,

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox

2022-04-26 Thread Eduardo Casino
> > Very terse. Me gusta mucho. :-) > I'm sorry, I did not mean to be rude. > OK, so I think I was not technically wrong, VMware does not, *but* > there is a way round it? > It is correct that VMWare does not provide guest additions for DOS, that is why I developed vmsmount, which implements ju

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox

2022-04-26 Thread Javier
El lun, 25-04-2022 a las 17:32 -0700, jkendzi escribió: > I am trying to setup a shared folder between my VirtualBox/FreeDOS > and my /home/documents folder. > > I am having difficulty with this setup, is there another way to > access a folder on the host or another attached drive to the host? He

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox

2022-04-26 Thread Javier
On Tue, 2022-04-26 at 12:56 +0200, Eduardo Casino wrote: > > It is correct that VMWare does not provide guest additions for DOS, > that is why I developed vmsmount, which implements just the shared > folders interface.  Wow vmsmount code is very nice! One of the cleanest examples of a redirector

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 2235, Issue 2

2022-04-26 Thread Daniel
Has anyone looked into using x86Box as an alternative to vmware and virtualbox to run FreeDOS and other old operating systems? On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 8:33 AM wrote: > Send Freedos-user mailing list submissions to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox

2022-04-26 Thread Eduardo Casino
El mar, 26 abr 2022 a las 14:54, Javier () escribió: > > Wow vmsmount code is very nice! One of the cleanest examples of a > redirector in Watcom C that I have seen. Wish I had seen this before. > The only other one I knew is EtherDFS. > > Thanks, VBFS seems very nice too ;) Mouse integration is

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox: Freedos-user Digest, Vol 2235, Issue 1

2022-04-26 Thread jkendzi
Thank you all for your insight. I will investigate the vmsmount and the network idea. I need to import or load a program to use in the freedos platform and would like to add the folder into my dos C:\ drive but haven't figured that out yet. Then I wouldn't need to use a shared folder. I have the fo

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox: Freedos-user Digest, Vol 2235, Issue 1

2022-04-26 Thread Darrin M. Gorski
A simple way to move files into a Virtualbox FreeDOS instance under Windows is to just use a separate virtual hard disk. A VHD disk file can be created in Windows using standard Windows-provided disk utilities (Virtualbox supports the VHD disk format as do most other virtualizers like Hyper-V and

Re: [Freedos-user] x86Box

2022-04-26 Thread Jim Hall
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 9:05 AM Daniel wrote: > > Has anyone looked into using x86Box as an alternative to vmware and > virtualbox to run FreeDOS and other old operating systems? > > Hi Daniel If you mean 86Box, we already have a link to it on the FreeDOS website: https://www.freedos.org/links

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox

2022-04-26 Thread Ralf Quint
On 4/26/2022 3:56 AM, Eduardo Casino wrote: Very terse. Me gusta mucho. :-) I'm sorry, I did not mean to be rude. OK, so I think I was not technically wrong, VMware does not, *but* there is a way round it? It is correct that VMWare does not provide guest additions for DOS, tha

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox

2022-04-26 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Eduardo, > I almost finished a version of vmsmount for VBox two or three years ago, > but I abandoned it because I lost interest. Now that you have a working > redirector, I see an opportunity to contribute to it. I'll mail you > privately to see if we can work it out. UTF-16 support and basic

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox

2022-04-26 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Javier, > I have recently been working on making a VirtualBox shared folders > client/redirector. I tested it on FreeDOS 1.2 and it seems to work. > > See https://git.javispedro.com/cgit/vbados.git/about/ I tested VBSF.EXE 0.54 on stock FreeDOS 1.3 and SvarDOS (uses an older FreeDOS kernel f

Re: [Freedos-user] x86Box

2022-04-26 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I realize this is a work in progress, but perhaps "The most popular emulators are listed here:" should instead say something like "FreeDOS images for some of the most popular emulators are listed here:" :) Sent with ProtonMail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, April 2

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox

2022-04-26 Thread tom ehlert
Hallo Herr Robert Riebisch, am Dienstag, 26. April 2022 um 22:10 schrieben Sie: > Hi Javier, >> I have recently been working on making a VirtualBox shared folders >> client/redirector. I tested it on FreeDOS 1.2 and it seems to work. >> >> See https://git.javispedro.com/cgit/vbados.git/about/