DOS environment in XP home

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rogerchancey

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I need to setup a DOS environment in XP home to use various DOS programs. The XP home OS does not work for DOS very well (for me anyway). Would the virtual environment from Proxmox do it? Is that overkill? Would it even install in XP home? Any recommendations?
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Could also try creating a blank VM, say with 16MB of RAM, that loads one of these ISOs, with a small hard disk, say like 100 meg.

http://www.allbootdisks.com/download/iso.html

I'd go with the Win98 or DOS 6.22, it depends about the memory manager you want to use. Since the memory constraints are so small, you may want to make a DOS VM for each program you want to use. Some old DOS progs use Extended memory some use Expanded. All that crap has to be tweaked in the config.sys file.

I documented a similar process in Linux Magazine for VMWare, I presume the same thing would work for KVM.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cach...are&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
 
Might also want to consider running DOS emulated under Linux:

http://www.dosemu.org/

Apparently it has a wide array of support for native functions like sound drivers and DPMI and various memory managers.
 
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