[vbox-dev] [Freedos-devel] Fixed: Problems with VirtualBox

[Frank Mehnert]

François,

On Wednesday 20 June 2012 01:02:12 François Revol wrote:
> 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.


Thanks! We will check these two issues.


> 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.

Kind regards,

Frank
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