Jordan, > So you choose Virtualbox over VMWare ? Is it just a matter of > what you happen to be running / emulating, or are there additional > reasons ?VMWare is a bit too stodgy, and has some issues with CentOS. For example, I could not get sound working with VMWare. If you want to try CentOS in a virtual machine, I would suggest a ready-to-use Browser Appliance. I have CentOS 7.5 (64 bit), May 10, 2018 Firefox ESR 52.8 from http://browser.shell.tor.hu/ which I have updated using Multimedia setup from https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS7 (did steps 1,2,3 flash, vlc, smplayer). I added a normal user 'vbox' (adduser command), set up passwords for 'root' and 'vbox', and updated Firefox to current version. Works great on top of Win7 under Virtualbox. Zorin is a Win7 lookalike. You can run vDosPlus XyWrite in any Windows virtual environment. It does not add much overhead. I have it in W2K (not very pretty, but snappy!). Windows 2000 can run a wide gamut of DOS/Win programs (DOS, Win 3.1, Win 32-bit) very fast. If you have the resources, Win7 64-bit runs, of course, modern apps fancier as a virtual machine, but fails on DOS and Win 3.1.
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