[Freedos-user] Import DOS executable to FreeDOS 1.4 over Virtual Box

2025-05-06 Thread John Thomas via Freedos-user
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 th

[Freedos-user] Trying to get FreeDOS 1.4 up over QEMU 8.2.2

2025-05-04 Thread John Thomas via Freedos-user
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". Jim's manual is dated 2018. The gist of these instructions is: - I should submit two commands: - qemu-img create freedos.img 200M - qemu-sys