From owner-freebsd-emulation Sun Feb 23 17:40:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA16403 for emulation-outgoing; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 17:40:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from kithrup.com (kithrup.com [205.179.156.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA16394 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 17:40:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sef@localhost) by kithrup.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id RAA21099 for emulation@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 17:40:53 -0800 Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 17:40:53 -0800 From: Sean Eric Fagan Message-Id: <199702240140.RAA21099@kithrup.com> To: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Status report of vm86/dos emulation Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Today, I grabbed OpenDOS Lite from Caldera (http://www.caldera.com; I don't like their license, but I'm only using it for evaluation purposes, so it's [temporarily] acceptable). Using doscmd, I was able to install OpenDOS under FreeBSD. There are a couple of problems still (I am able to hang my computer completely by just starting doscmd up), but, all in all, it did work. I hope to either make patches relative to 2.2-GAMMA available, or have the changes checked into -current, sometime later this week (or maybe next weekend). When I do either of those, I'll have detailed instructions on what I did to install OpenDOS. Many thanks and kudos to Michael Smith and Jonathon Lemon. And, it's *truly* spooky watching DOS run on my machine ;). Sean. P.S. As an aside, I've (sadly) come to the conclusion that dos emulation is essentially worthless. WINE or Wabi (or similar) is the way to go, it seems. Oh, you could probably use a DOS emulator to do the installation, and having a decent DOS emulator built into WINE or Wabi (or similar) is probably a really good idea... but there's not a lot that you get with a pure DOS emulator, which is what we currently have. Maybe if/when we get DOSEMU working, we may have more luck. SEF