Greetings!
I'm a bit perplexed trying to get networking working for FreeDOS 1.3 on
QEMU. My physical host is an M1 Mac (Apple Silicon).
FreeDOS installs and boots fine, but I get this message:
QEMU network detected.
Physical hardware networking is not supported at this time.
Here is my QEMU invocation:
qemu-system-i386 -boot order=cd -m 32M -k en-us -name FreeDOS1 -cdrom
FD13BNS.iso -drive FreeDOS1.img,format=raw,media=disk -net nic,model=pcnet
-net user
I've also tried model=ne2k_pci, model=e1000, etc. Also tried similar setup
in UTM, which is a graphical front end for QEMU.
But looking at FreeDOS's startup scripts, I'm thinking maybe QEMU
networking is not supported...?
At line 84 of FDAUTO.BAT, "%dosdir%\bin\fdnet.bat start" is called.
Looking at fdnet.bat, at line 92, "vinfo /m" is executed. When I execute
this myself at the command line, errorlevel is set to 102. In fdnet.bat,
this branches to a label called NoAutoQEMU on line 109. There, since %1 is
"start" there's a goto NoStartQEMU. That gives the "QEMU network detected"
message. Then there's a goto NoHardware, which gives the "Physical
networking is not supported at this time" and end.
So is networking under QEMU completely unsupported?
Strangely, I found this forum post in which someone has it working just
fine, so I'm thinking that maybe I'm doing something wrong?
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-virtualization-and-cloud-90/freedos-in-qemu-no-internet-connection-4175638386/
--
andrew fabbro
and...@fabbro.org
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