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Creating and Using MS DOS Virtual Machine in QEMU
Create a disk image of desired size. I chose 50 MB $ dd if=/dev/zero of=msdos622.img bs=1k count=0 seek=50000 Next boot from the DOS boot media. I had a bootable CD image. $ qemu -hda msdos622.img -cdrom DOS6.22_bootdisk.iso -boot d From … Continue reading
Creating and Using MS DOS Virtual Machine in QEMU
Being an old DOS user, sometimes there is an urge to go back to college days and recall how we used to do various things in DOS. Using dbase III, in a DOS environment reminds me of some of the … Continue reading
Interconnecting QEMU and VirtualBox Virtual Machines
Sometime back I came across VirtualBox, an excellent replacement for commercial Vmware. I installed few OSes in VirtualBox and found the performance pretty good. In my opinion the performance of Windows virtual machines is much better in VirtualBox, perhaps because … Continue reading