Hi!
If you want to share directories between DOS and Linux easily, you could use DOSEMU2 (or DOSBOX) which are both optimized for DOS. However, they are no neutral simulations of hardware for the same reason. For example you will have to load specific DOSEMU2 drivers to use some features. They are of course part of what you get when you install DOSEMU2, but the handling is quite different from VirtualBox "here is an imaginary PC, do with it what you want to do". http://dosemu2.github.io/dosemu2/ You can basically tell DOSEMU2 that any Linux directory of your choice will be made visible as a drive letter of your choice for DOS, even including a bootable C: drive :-) You have to load special drivers for DOS after booting, because otherwise the drive will be read-only without DOS noticing: Writes would be accepted, but almost immediately forgotten. For VirtualBox and similar, you could for example use a floppy disk image and configure mtools to access it (you get commands such as mcopy or mdir for Linux with it) and make sure to NOT have VirtualBox open at the moment when you modify the floppy image. You can of course also mount the floppy if you have the access rights for that, or user mode tools are installed for it, but again: There is a risk of confusion from both VirtualBox and Linux accessing the same "floppy", so try to work in a way which makes sure that only one of the two accesses the image at a time. We also have VMWare tools for shared drive access, which uses DOS drivers to access some special VMWare feature, but that is of course for VMWare and not for VirtualBox. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
