Hi Javier,

> I have recently been working on making a VirtualBox shared folders
> client/redirector. I tested it on FreeDOS 1.2 and it seems to work. 
> 
> See https://git.javispedro.com/cgit/vbados.git/about/

I tested VBSF.EXE 0.54 on stock FreeDOS 1.3 and SvarDOS (uses an older
FreeDOS kernel from 2016) and at first it seemed to work, but I found it
not very stable. Trying to copy folders from DOS to the host led to
errors about being unable to read the files from the source folder.

Additionally, I noticed timestamps are not correct. Most (?) times the
date and time of the point in time of copying will be shown.

I also noticed on SvarDOS copied files will sometimes show up as type
'directory'. I'm unable to open these 'folder' with a text editor or
change to them, but I could delete them with 'del filename'.

> Or https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=105823 
> 
> It also includes a int33 mouse driver with VBox integration.
> (Note however that attempting to use it with FreeDOS' EDIT 
> results in freezing the VirtualBox UI, since EDIT seems to be spamming
> the int33 hide/show cursor calls at very high frequency and the driver
> just forwards them directly to the VirtualBox UI. May need some rate
> limiting there. However it works with most other programs including
> MS's EDIT). 

I could load VBMOUSE and it detected a mouse, but I was unable to use
it. Either (text mode) programs didn't show a mouse cursor or the VM
freezed hardly.

Nevertheless I appreciate your work so far and hope you will continue. :-)

Cheers,
Robert
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