Why not create an ISO of your folder and add it to your VM?  From there,
FreeDOS's included SHSUCDX & UIDE/UDVD2 should let you see the ISO as drive
D or another letter.

```
genisoimage -o <MyISO>.iso -V <MyCDName> -v -J -R -U -iso-level 3
<ShortPathToFolder>/
```

On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 3:39 AM John Thomas via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> I have gotten FreeDOS 1.4 up and running over Virtual Box over an Ubuntu
> linux host. Now I want to import a DOS executable into my FreeDOS1.4
> Virtual Machine so I can execute it.
>
> I have a directory on my linuxnhost OS for this program including
> executable, icon, config, etc. files. I can run the executable in DOSBox.
> Only trouble is, DOSBox messed up my hard drive.
>
> On searching the web for how to import data from my host, I found one of
> two problems with each proposed solution:
>
>    - Not supported for DOS.
>    - I am required to import another executable to support the proposed
>    solution.
>
>
> Can anyone suggest a solution to my problem?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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