Hi, On 20/06/2012 00:41, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > Hi all, > > I am happy to announce that some very annoying problems with running FreeDOS > as guest in > VirtualBox have been fixed. > > Jack R. Ellis has fixed the "Virtual floppy change problem" this list has > talked about. > > Eric Auer has written the free VBOX-FIX.COM, a workaround for a VirtualBox > bug that made > UIDE.SYS hang at boot for 3 minutes.
How about you submit a bug report to VirtualBox and get it fixed instead of trying to work around the issue? cc-ed to virtualbox dev mailing list. The time freed could then be used to write proper virtualbox guest additions for *DOS. > > I have updated the FreeDOS wiki with information about these changes. > > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=VirtualBox_-_Chapter_8 > > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=VirtualBox_-_Chapter_11 > > Thanks again to Jack and Eric for all the bug-hunting and for writing the > code and to Bernd Blaauw for his help! > François. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
