On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 06:17, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > > Another free alternative is QEMU, which should be available (and probably > already installed by default) in every major Linux distro.
You said this in answer to me the other day. I meant to respond, but was busy. So, I will now. I don't see them as being the same thing at all. QEMU is a VM. Sure you can run DOS but you can run any OS under a VM. The point of DOSemu is that it runs DOS like a program under Linux. It's not a VM and it doesn't work like a VM. DOSemu doesn't need a virtual hard disk. It lets DOS apps access Linux directories and read and write Linux files. It lets DOS access Linux hardware: I know of people burning EPROMs using DOSemu. It starts with useful Linux directories mapped as DOS drives. It can run in text mode and output be piped to the Linux shell. It's a totally different beast and I don't see how a hypervisor -- any hypervisor -- can replace it? How can a DOS VM do any of the things I just suggested? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
