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. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
