Karen: Inside a Virtual Machine, ALL hardware is virtualized to some degree or
other -- you never get direct access to the real hardware (whether it's
keyboard or mouse or video screen or hard drive or serial port or even the
clock). Exactly what gets virtualized through to the VM and exactly how it
gets passed through depends on the VM. Different VM's do some things better
than others. I've played around a little bit with different VM's (VMWare,
Bochs, DOSBox, QEMU, VirtualPC, PCEm, and others). None of them are very easy
to set up. and they all have their limitations and quirks. At least for my
purposes, I still find VMWare to be better than the others even though I still
consider it really pretty bad and don't do anything serious with it. And
again, the main problem I have with VMWare is that it does not pass the
keyboard though to the VM like it should and the keyboard is VERY critical in
DOS (far more critical than the mouse).
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