Hi Herr or Frau Beitrag! > I wonder if it was possible to include the guest integration drivers for > Virtual PC, VirtualBox, QEMU (are there any?), Hyper-V in a provided VHD
Eduardo Casino has written VMSMOUNT in 2011 :-) It lets you mount VMWare shared directories as a FreeDOS drive letter :-) I guess it would also be possible to do something fancy for mouse support. DOS does not have a built-in clipboard, so a guest driver for that would have to do something else, such as Linux style "mark to put into clipboard, use middle mouse button to paste clipboard contents into keyboard buffer" but I am not aware of such guest drivers for DOS yet. Same for the possibility of guest graphics drivers, where DOS has to rely on the BIOS and hardware VGA / VESA emulation instead. Are there any Virtual PC, Virtual Box or QEMU specific guest drivers for FreeDOS? DOSEMU for example ships with magic XMS, EMS, CDROM and shared drive and directory hooks, some of the features work without even loading any drivers. You would want to include EMS.SYS, CDROM.SYS, UNIX, EXITEMU, LREDIR and a few other binaries from the DOSEMU utilities if you would boot FreeDOS from a virtual disk image there BUT it is a lot easier to boot FreeDOS from a shared DIRECTORY in DOSEMU instead. In that case, it might be better to just symlink the utility directory to C:\DOSEMU\ as part of the "installation" process of FreeDOS to shared C. > I don't think DOSBox requires a virtual hard disk image at all. Yes and no. You can put your DOS games in a directory to let DOSBox open them, but if you want to use FreeDOS kernel and drivers, you probably have to use a disk image? The "normal" style of DOSBox is that the whole DOS is a built-in illusion. If you do not need fancy drivers and want to work mainly with the DOSBox built-in stuff, a similar strategy as for DOSEMU is probably easier: Ship FreeDOS as a directory ready to be dropped in a shared directory C: "drive" for DOSBox? Cheers, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
