[vbox-users] MS-DOS Apps

2009-06-04 Thread Maciek Kaliszewski
Hi, I've seen that there is active thread about MS_DOS on this list so I add my three penny :-) I have legacy application running under MS-DOS . It runs for few seconds and next freezes . (It doesn't react to "Send Alt-Ctrl-DEL" or "Reset" ) As far as I remember the application requires a lot o

Re: [vbox-users] MS-DOS Apps

2009-06-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:05:26 +0200 Maciek Kaliszewski wrote: > (who remember what it is :-) ) memory ,but I cannot move some > programs to UPPER mem because under VBox there is very small region > of it. I remember that my ms-dos machine has over 628kb free (conventional). I started this machin

Re: [vbox-users] MS-DOS Apps

2009-06-04 Thread Maciek Kaliszewski
dick hoogendijk wrote: On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:05:26 +0200 Maciek Kaliszewski wrote: (who remember what it is :-) ) memory ,but I cannot move some programs to UPPER mem because under VBox there is very small region of it. I remember that my ms-dos machine has over 628kb free (convent

Re: [vbox-users] MS-DOS Apps

2009-06-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Maciek Kaliszewski < maciek.kaliszew...@gmail.com> wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > >> On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:05:26 +0200 >> Maciek Kaliszewski wrote: >> >> >> >>> (who remember what it is :-) ) memory ,but I cannot move some >>> programs to UPPER mem because und

Re: [vbox-users] MS-DOS Apps

2009-06-04 Thread Maciek Kaliszewski
Fernando Cassia wrote: DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS LOADHIGH smartdrv.exe (etc) There are more people on this list whose remember MS-DOS days :-) . My config.sys contains himem.sys , but it only enables HMA AFAIR it is 64kb block after first 1Mb. In order to enable UMB you have to install e

Re: [vbox-users] MS-DOS Apps

2009-06-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Maciek Kaliszewski < maciek.kaliszew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fernando Cassia wrote: > >> >> DOS=HIGH,UMB >> DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS >> LOADHIGH smartdrv.exe >> (etc) >> >> There are more people on this list whose remember MS-DOS days :-) . > > My config.sys contains himem.

Re: [vbox-users] MS-DOS Apps

2009-06-04 Thread Gregory Nowak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I hope I'm not stepping on any toes here if I mention that due to the availability of guest additions for dos, and win98, I run pc-dos7, win3.0, and another vm with win95 under virtual pc 2007, and that works for me very nicely. Maybe someone else will

Re: [vbox-users] MS-DOS Apps

2009-06-08 Thread Libor Striz
Fernando Cassia's previous post was like this : > > > DOS=HIGH,UMB > DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS > LOADHIGH smartdrv.exe > (etc) > Is there need for smartdrv ? I would thought caching is covered by the host. But I can be wrong. -- Poutnik The best depends on how the best is defined. __

Re: [vbox-users] MS-DOS Apps

2009-06-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Libor Striz wrote: > Fernando Cassia's previous post was like this : >> > >> >> DOS=HIGH,UMB >> DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS >> LOADHIGH smartdrv.exe >> (etc) >> > Is there need for smartdrv ? > I would thought caching is covered by the host. > But I can be wrong. No need for s