Dos Network Support

[rohded]

Hello, Somewhat Newbie with Proxmox. Much more familiar with VMWARE.

Trying to get network going on MSDOS or FREEDOS.

Both install ok.

When Network sw installed, neither will boot.

Clicking on start button comes back instantly as not running.

Any wild ideas?

 

[guruevi]

Are you sure it is instant? Because the boot sequence (BIOS screen etc) loads before any guest kernel runs so software shouldn’t affect it. More likely you’re getting a quick boot sequence (try reloading the console after you press boot, see any error messages?) and then your OS shuts down or crashes. Why? Dunno.

What software do you run? Maybe comment it out of config.sys and autoexec.bat and load the drivers manually while you can monitor. Last time I troubleshot networking on was with IPX/SPX, I know some very early (BSD based) TCP/IP implementations were done by Microsoft but that came on a floppy and Windows 3.11.

 

[rohded]

Hi Guruevi,

I rebooted the proxmox box a couple times and the guests came back.

It seems to have something to do with the network drivers. I matched the RTL8139 config setting with a NDIS drive on the guest.
Seems to have the problem.

Any more thoughts?

 

[guruevi]

I would suggest using the n2k_isa or n2k_pci on the host and NE2000 drivers in the guest. The RTL* drivers were more “stable” for Windows 98SE-XP era. Not sure where you got the drivers, but it’s a crapshoot about quality.