Re: Various virtual machines compared

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Kari, I have not managed to get XyWrite up on Windows 8, but I got
Mac OS Mountain Lion running stably and rapidly in about an hour,
using Virtual Box and the instructions here:


http://lifehacker.com/5938332/how-to-run-mac-os-x-on-any-windows-pc-using-virtualbox

Also, FreeDOS is reported now to have been updated, and is officially
capable of running win 3.1. So maybe it's worth your having a look again?


http://www.freedos.org/technotes/technote/200.html
(very bottom, hard to read on Chrome)

Here are my issues.

1. Getting DOS into 43 lines. There are instructions but it is so
long since I have done this kind of thing that I have forgotten how
to interpret the commands as written.


2. Once that is done I would have thought XyWrite would run ?

3. FreeDOS 1.1 has support for networking but I don't know how to use it.

4. I cannot access the non-virtual-hard-drive in my DOS box. (i.e.
access files between the real and virtual machines)


5. I cannot even access the non-virtual-hard drive in my Mountain Lion box!

So I'm afraid I'm pretty hopeless! But at least I can run the
Mac-only programs I need efficiently now. Even touch works! (I have
been lent a Dell XPS One 27 Touch to test, which is how I
conveniently happen to have Win 8 running.)


I could also try installing XP in Virtual Box . . . . but if it's
only really for XyWrite, isn't Win 3.1 a much better choice? I have
forgotten why just running DOS is deprecated.


All best,

Bill


> >Kari, have you migrated any of your solutions to Win 8 ?
>
> No. Basically it cannot be done (or could theoretically using double
> virtualization). Win 8 uses Hyper V, and Hyper V and Virtual PC are
> incompatible.
>
>
> >and there is also the possibility of FreeDOS along with Virtual
> Box or similar.
>
>
> FreeDOS has some great utilities (like KEYB) that can used to
> enhance MS-DOS, but FreeDOS cannot run Win 3.11. So I would simply avoid it.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli
> LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
> lexitec@xxxxxxxx
>
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