You can also do that with qemu: -drive format=raw,file=fat:rw:$HOME/shared
The QEMU docs state that the FAT is created at startup - so any new files added on the linux side won't appear to DOS after booting However, new files created from DOS will update the in-memory FAT and thus appear to DOS and Linux. I would not rely on this for muti-user use though, any more than I would rely on the homedir -based "drives" that DOSEMU uses. For this use MSNET or something similar which allows proper file locking. (as discussed previously) - Darrin On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 9:18 AM Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 14:03, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > > > DOSEMU can definitely boot FreeDOS (or any DOS) in a window like I've > described, where it's a completely self-contained and installed DOS. That's > exactly how I used to run DOSEMU in the DOSEMU "1.x" days. > > Yes, I know, but that's not what I was talking about. > > What I was talking about was primarily the integration between DOS and > the underlying OS. That I had a set of drive letters that were my home > directory, and the whole Linux filesystem, and so on. I could do, say, > > DIR d:\apps\msword > z:\wordlist.txt > > And bingo, there's a file in my home directory called wordlist.txt > containing the list of files in what DOS sees as my d:\apps\word > folder. > > I could open WordPerfect, write some stuff, save it as a a file in > Z:\Docume~1\mywpdoc.wp and then alt-tab to my Linux desktop and open > ~/Documents/mywpdoc.wp in LibreOffice, check it looked OK, and then > flip to Thunderbird email it to my boss. > > It makes DOS apps part of the apps on the computer. That's why it was > useful to me. That's why I've been asking about getting FD13 running > under it. > > A VM doesn't do that. It is a virtual PC with a virtual HD and inside > that a FAT filesystem. My Linux apps can't see into it. My DOS apps > can't see Linux files. > > Whether it's in a window or not doesn't matter. That's just cosmetics. > > I'm not starting an argument, I am just trying to understand. > > -- > 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 >
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