On Sun, May 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM John Thomas via Freedos-user
<freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> I am trying to follow the instructions in "Using FreeDos" by Jim Hall, 
> Chapter 1, “Installing FreeDOS”, "How to install FreeDOS on a Virtual 
> Machine".
>
[..]


I'm replying late to your question, but over the weekend I shared this
video on the YouTube channel which shows how to install FreeDOS 1.4 on
QEMU:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H0TWZocJZY


This doesn't include all of the options that I use to support things
like sound (and the fix for TurboC/TurboPascal keyboard reads) but if
you just want to run DOS applications, this should work for almost
everything (a few corner cases).

Here's my actual QEMU command line that I use:


qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -m 32 -rtc base=localtime -audiodev
pa,id=snd -machine pcspk-audiodev=snd -device sb16,audiodev=snd
-device adlib,audiodev=snd -global i8042.kbd-throttle=on -hda
freedos.qcow2 -hdb files.qcow2 -cdrom T2507BNS.iso


I use the freedos.qcow2 virtual disk image for my C: drive, and the
files.qcow2 virtual disk image for my D: drive. That way, I can just
create a new freedos.qcow2 virtual disk image every time I want to try
out a new version of FreeDOS (like the monthly test releases) without
losing my personal files on the D: drive.


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