15 May
2010
15 May
'10
8:09 p.m.
John Foust wrote:
I was curious to see if anyone mentioned VMware as an
emulation environment
on this list. The archives show a brief conversation about it in 2002
regarding whether it could run OS/2.
I've been using it for a client's servers for the past few months and
it is mind-blowing. Drag-and-drop, super-fast start and stop of entire
virtual servers.
One of VMware's demo appliances is a DOS environment running old games.
Linux large and small is a common OS in appliances, too.
With the free VMware Workstation version, you can easily click-click
and be running a downloaded appliance.
So why aren't we using VMware appliance images to exchange pre-made,
pre-set environments for running emulated OSes?
- John
Dredging up an old thread because I finally got around to trying it out ..
VMWare Player 3 installed IBM DOS 6.3 nicely. I was able to use a USB
floppy drive or floppy images from my hard drive. The emulated network
support (AMD PCNet) worked fine with a packet driver, and I was able to
run my TCP/IP applications.
But it seems to fall down when using DOS console applications. 80x25
text is readable, but when you switch to 80x50 it keeps the same window
size, which is not pleasant to work with. There does not seem to be a
window scaling option or other trick to make it usable. Even
full-screen mode just takes over the entire screen but fills it with a
black border and keeps the working area the same. This seems to be a
common complaint.
Do you use it for DOS text mode applications? If so, have you noticed
this too?
I'm going to look at VirtualBox next ..
Mike