Hi! > The Raspberry Pi which is sadly a proprietary hardware > platform, does nut support DOS. I thought it did by some miracle. It > doesn't. Apparently, nobody has released a hypervisor for the Raspberry > Pi 4 that will emulate an 80386 or earlier well enough to run FreeDOS or > any DOS without issues.
Hypervisors only isolate operating systems from each other on hardware where they would run anyway. Because tiny single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi are usuall based on ARM, which is totally different from 386, there cannot be a hypervisor which lets you run DOS on raw Raspberry hardware. Instead, you have to use any virtual PC or PC emulator of your choice, for example QEMU: https://www.onmsft.com/how-to/how-to-run-dos-on-a-raspberry-pi https://opensource.com/article/18/3/can-you-run-dos-raspberry-pi Or DOSBOX-X, which is not a normal PC emulator, because it also contains a lot of DOS specific stuff. Good for you: https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/build-a-dos-emulation-system Another DOS specific thing for Raspberry Pi is RPIX86: http://rpix86.patrickaalto.com/ (not sure whether PCEM would run on Raspberry Pi) Or dosbian, which is a Linux which boots straight into dosbox: https://cmaiolino.wordpress.com/dosbian/ I am sure there are a variety of other ways to do what "nobody" has released yet ;-) Cheers, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
