[ale] what DOS/DOS clone is recommended for Virtual Box ?

[Tim Meanor]

I agree, use DOSBox if at all possible.  I've used it on a number of
occasions for old DOS games and it works great.  I've also seen people
running old DOS applications (WordPerfect, even Windows 3.1 for some
reason).  I've also installed DOS 6.22 in a VMware virtual machine,
and though it worked fine, it was a huge pain trying to remember how
to do things like find and load a driver for a CD-ROM drive, and how
to copy data from host PC to the DOS virtual machine.  DOSBox makes
this much easier because you just specifiy a directory on the host OS
that DOSBox has access to and files in this directory are accessible
from within DOSBox.  Just copy files into there that need to be
accessed from within DOSBox.  Much easier!

-Tim

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:39 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why use Virtual Box? Would DOSBox[1] not work? If not, would
> FreeDOS[2] do what you want?
>
> [1] -- http://www.dosbox.com/
> [2] -- http://www.freedos.org/
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Courtney Thomas
> <courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> How'd you set it up under Virtual Box, please ?
>>
>> Again, appreciatively,
>>
>> Courtney
>
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