Jim Hall wrote: >>> I'm building the new website. I'll update the notice to encourage new >>> users to install FreeDOS in a virtual machine.
Tom Ehlert wrote: >> any reason why we don't provide ready to run virtual machines as .VHD >> images? Jim Hall wrote: >> Hmm... I don't know why we haven't. I don't know anything about VHD >> though. Is that a standard virtual disk image that any PC >> emulator/virtual machine can read? Can free/open source software >> virtual machines read these (or create them)? On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: > > .VHD is a fairly generic virtual *disk* format, and most virtual > machines providers should be able to read them. > > a tiny bit more specialized are the virtual machine configuration > files, but we should be able to provide multiple formats, for Virtual > Box, DosBox, HyperV, ... > > still no rocket science, and no risk to damage user data. Thanks for the pointer. I'll see if I can output a VHD from QEMU. If I can, I'll post a default install of FreeDOS 1.1 to our ibiblio archive and link to it. I'll do the same when 1.2 is out. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHD_(file_format) "VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) is a file format which represents a virtual hard disk drive (HDD). It may contain what is found on a physical HDD, such as disk partitions and a file system, which in turn can contain files and folders. It is typically used as the hard disk of a virtual machine. The format was created by Connectix for their Virtual PC product, known as Microsoft Virtual PC since Microsoft acquired Connectix in 2003. Since June 2005, Microsoft has made the VHD Image Format Specification available to third parties under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
