DOS ain't dead

VirtualBox 1.5.4 (Windows, Linux, OS X) released (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 01.01.2008, 16:04

> You've mentioned VirtualBox a few times on this forum, so it was mainly
> directed at you.

Ah yes, I forgot! Thanks!

> Still, I haven't yet tried it, but how could it be
> worse than QEMU??

It depends. Qemu has SB, VBox has USB. Both are unable to run v86-code natively (that's why IMO VMware is still the best option for DOS) and both have problems with the keyboard emulation in DOS.

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MS-DOS forever!

Complete thread:

• VirtualBox 1.5.4 (Windows, Linux, OS X) released - Rugxulo, 31.12.2007, 15:03 (Announce)
  • VirtualBox 1.5.4 (Windows, Linux, OS X) released - Japheth, 31.12.2007, 16:00
    • VirtualBox 1.5.4 (Windows, Linux, OS X) released - Rugxulo, 31.12.2007, 21:00
      • VirtualBox 1.5.4 (Windows, Linux, OS X) released - Japheth, 01.01.2008, 16:04
      • VirtualBox 1.5.4 (Windows, Linux, OS X , NO DOS ) released - DOS386, 02.01.2008, 01:15