> On Feb 18, 2022, at 2:16 AM, John Vella <john.ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Equally newb reply... It's there any advantage over installing virtualbox and > running freedos there? > > On Thu, 17 Feb 2022, 23:29 Joseph Kelchner, <joek...@msn.com > <mailto:joek...@msn.com>> wrote: > Hello, > > I’m wondering if Freedos could be used as my operating system on a Windows 10 > pro Hyper-V Virtual Machine? > > Thanks! > > Joe > I don’t use Hyper-V. But, I can tell you a couple general things to consider.
Modern UEFI only systems and DOS don’t play well together at all. VirtualBox will let you run DOS on such systems under a host OS. There very few programs under DOS that can talk to most on-board audio in modern machines. VirtualBox will provide a sound card emulation layer that can be used by many programs and games. Under VirtualBox you will need to live without sound for programs that use the PC speaker for audio under DOS. VirtualBox does not fully emulate all the features of VGA. While generally that isn’t a problem. Some programs and games may not be able to work as designed or at all. Some games and programs just don’t work under VirtualBox or most other Emulators for unknown reasons. The basic networking support provided with FreeDOS works fine under VirtualBox. However, there are only a handful of programs that will be helpful in doing any kind of remote drive mapping. So, getting files in and out of the VM requires a little more effort. You may consider one of the DOSBox variants instead. Basic networking is not supported. However, you can install FreeDOS in a hybrid mode (default under DOSBox). That install mode installs FreeCOM and all the other bells and whistles. However, it does not install the FreeDOS kernel. Instead it uses the DOSBox kernel. This allows direct access in the DOSBox to specific folders on the Host as if they were DOS drives. DOSBox has pretty good emulation for sound card support under DOS. DOSBox emulates many of those obscure VGA features not provided under VirtualBox. DOSBox emulates the PC speaker. DOSBox can be sped up or slowed down for older games that have problems on fast machines. Of those occasional programs and games that just don’t work in VirtualBox, most work fine under DOSBox. Although, there are a couple that only seem to work on real hardware. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user> > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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