Liam, > On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 20:02, Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote: >> >> Actually, no it's not. It's fairly easy with System Commander. And AFAIK, >> System Commander is the only multi-boot manager that works this way >> (manipulating the boot files instead of manipulating disks or partitions). >> Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages.
> That's not the point here. > Can you roll back changes? Can you make a snapshop of one system and > then revert to it? Can you duplicate a system and send it to someone? > Can you keep backups of just one system? Can you store backups on a > server or a removable drive? > All those are trivially easy with VMs. just about everything above is close to trivial. this is DOS, and XCOPY (or ZIP) will do all of the above. now YOU explain to the rest of the world how to keep all the different systems synchronised. given that there will never be a direct communication between different VMs. fixing a program requires synching this for multiple VMs. VMs are very useful, and Bret's approach might even be to a *single* virtual machine. but Bret's problem is to have ONE program (and possibly one batch file) to be tested against multiple OS versions without too much fuss. your approach doesn't help at this. just shut up. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
