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posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 06.12.2008, 12:10

> > The bad thing about VirtualBox is, that Sun dropped support for Windows
> > 2000 hosts already in version 1.6. :-| One can hack later
> > installers to continue to work, but then you are on your own.
>
> I am a hobby/toy OS collector, and I use those emulators for them, not to
> run DOS. I use the emulators with Windows XP, and sincerely Virtual PC is
> by far the most compatible, the problem is that on my system it is too
> slow. From the rest, VirtualBox usually still does a good job when the
> others fail and it is fast enough, so I use it most times.
Seems that VirtualBox runs okay (faster SSE2 than QEMU although your mileage may vary), but I had trouble downloading from their site. Eventually, I just got it from FileHippo. Runs the latest OpenSolaris (whereas my real hardware doesn't, go figure). Of course, on a side note, I don't know why GCC isn't preinstalled (and I don't think it's even on the disk although much other fluff is). Seems crappy, but at least I found SchilliX DVD (also runs under VirtualBox) that has GCC/G++ 3.4.3 (although C++ support is improperly setup and no static libs, meh). I really think even FreeDOS needs to put GCC on its .ISOs in the future since it's so useful. But whatever, maybe you guys disagree. (I hacked a small DOS one, GCC 2.95.3, to fit on floppy, and now it can be unpacked via 7zdec + extar. Anybody interested?)

P.S. Is VirtualBox supposed to support USB as if hard drive or only if bootable? (Seems the latter else I'm doing it wrong.) If it's based upon QEMU, can it do something similar to "fat:/mydir/mysubdir"??

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