Thank you all for your insight. I will investigate the vmsmount and the
network idea.
I need to import or load a program to use in the freedos platform and would
like to add the folder into my dos C:\ drive but haven't figured that out
yet. Then I wouldn't need to use a shared folder.
I have the folder in my /home/documents/ now and just want to copy it into
the virtual drive so I can run the .com and use the program.

James Kendzierski
jken...@gmail.com

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> Subject: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox
> I am trying to setup a shared folder between my VirtualBox/FreeDOS and my
> /home/documents folder.
>
> I am having difficulty with this setup, is there another way to access a
> folder on the host or another attached drive to the host?
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> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 02:34, jkendzi <jken...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to setup a shared folder between my VirtualBox/FreeDOS and
> my /home/documents folder.
> >
> > I am having difficulty with this setup, is there another way to access a
> folder on the host or another attached drive to the host?
>
> I have spent a little time and effort on this, too.
>
> My sad conclusion is that I don't think you can, directly. VBox will
> only share folders with its own guest additions in the VM. If there
> are no GAs, it won't share folders. There are no GAs for DOS.
> Therefore, you can't share folders with a DOS guest.
>
> (I would love to be shown to be wrong.)
>
> Therefore, all you could do is to share the folders to your LAN with
> your host OS, and install an SMB client (such as the MS LAN Manager
> client, or the IBM DOS network client) into FreeDOS and connect it to
> the LAN using VBox' bridged networking functionality.
>
> Connectix' VirtualPC used to offer DOS guest additions, but it only
> works on VirtualPC. VPC is freeware now, but only supports up to Win7
> (with a hack to run on Win8).
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> I don't think VMware has DOS guest additions.
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> I don't think VMware has DOS guest additions.
>>
>
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> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.3/pkg-html/vmsmount.html
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> Regards,
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> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 12:25, Eduardo Casino <m...@eduardocasino.es>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I don't think VMware has DOS guest additions.
> >
> >
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.3/pkg-html/vmsmount.html
>
> Very terse. Me gusta mucho. :-)
>
> OK, so I think I was not technically wrong, VMware does not, *but*
> there is a way round it?
>
> Very useful info. Thank you!
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> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 12:56:37 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox
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>
>> Very terse. Me gusta mucho. :-)
>>
>
> I'm sorry, I did not mean to be rude.
>
>
>> OK, so I think I was not technically wrong, VMware does not, *but*
>> there is a way round it?
>>
>
> It is correct that VMWare does not provide guest additions for DOS, that
> is why I developed vmsmount, which implements just the shared folders
> interface.
>
> Very useful info. Thank you!
>>
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> You're welcome.
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