Hi, I did updated my VirtualBox install with the latest version available (the Oracle one, not the OSE) - 4.2.16. Unfortunately, UDVD2 still freezes there for - literally - a minute. It starts booting, and gets stuck for ~1 minute on the screen on the screenshot below.
http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/temp/udvd2_freeze/udvd2_freeze_vbox_4_2_16.png Then, after a minute it continues to boot happily, and CD access works just fine. Using additional TSRs to solve the issue sounds a bit like a contraption to me. Sure, it's technically interesting that such solutions exists, but as a simple end user I naturally tend to pick solutions that works out of the box, without requiring any additional magic (and XCDROM.SYS seems to be such simple solution). regards, Mateusz On 07/22/2013 08:38 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste-family.net> > wrote: >> >> On 07/21/2013 07:59 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >> >>> Ouch, thought this was solved, both with and without some custom fixing >>> driver. Most recent VirtualBox (4.2.16?) used? Most recent UDVD2.SYS >>> used? >> >> The UDVD2.SYS I used is the latest I could find (from the link you >> provided). >> >> The VirtualBox I have is the one my distro packaged for me: 4.1.12. >> Maybe this is something that got fixed in newer VBox.. dunno. > > I know it's a fairly big download (esp. on slow connection), but you > could download latest directly from their site. They have a fairly big > selection of Linux distro packages (Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSuSE, > Mandriva), even one (well, x86 or x64) that says "all distributions"!! > (EDIT: Apparently binaries for "all distros" are 81 MB in size each.) > > https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads > > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.16/VirtualBox-4.2.16-86992-Linux_x86.run > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.16/VirtualBox-4.2.16-86992-Linux_amd64.run > >>> In worst case, revert to XCDROM but keep UDVD2 around. >> >> That's exactly what I did. UDVD2 seems really nice. It just can't be a >> default if it can trigger freezes > > I'm pretty sure this is fixed in newer versions. I mean, I don't use > VBox much, but even on my painfully slow (no VT-X) laptop, I don't > recall seeing any slowdown at bootup. > > BTW, I think there was also a DOS TSR that Eric Auer made for working > around this. I don't know why it wasn't more widely publicized. I > forget where I even got it, and I don't think I ever tested it. Worst > case scenario: I (or Eric or ...) could email you that for testing. > > EDIT: Here is probably where I found it: > > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=VirtualBox_-_Chapter_8#The_fix > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
