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#1 Re: Running Microsoft Windows inside Debian: qemu Posted by Adem on Thu 18 Nov 2004 at 12:35 This is a very helpful article for me. I had always been shy of even touching this sort of thing; now that I have seen it here, I am a little more brave. I have somewhat a different problem --i.e. the solution I need does not involve running an up-to-data OS, but plain old DOS, MS DOS 6.22. We have a machine that runs on DOS ever since 386/486 days. Damn thing never died so I cant just replace it :) What it does is to serve G-Code data (i.e. CAM files) to a controller over a serial port. Serial port bit is easy to solve, but the it uses its own sofware communication protocol, which means I am stuck with it. And, as the vendor is long dead and gone, I ended up the one keeping the memories alive ;) Since it is DOS, it is limited to local files only --I did try all sorts of networking possibilities but the software running on it uses every last bit of memory --i.e. NIC drivers etc will simply not fit. So, after that long prelude, what I am looking for is a solution that lets me run DOS under, say, qemu *and* have access to a local linux partition (FAT16) so that we can handle the file transfers in Linux and DOS thing thinks it is using just another disk. Does anyone, by any chance, know how to do this --or have pointers to how it can be done. Thank you, again. Cheers, Adem
This is a very helpful article for me. I had always been shy of even touching this sort of thing; now that I have seen it here, I am a little more brave.
I have somewhat a different problem --i.e. the solution I need does not involve running an up-to-data OS, but plain old DOS, MS DOS 6.22.
We have a machine that runs on DOS ever since 386/486 days. Damn thing never died so I cant just replace it :) What it does is to serve G-Code data (i.e. CAM files) to a controller over a serial port. Serial port bit is easy to solve, but the it uses its own sofware communication protocol, which means I am stuck with it. And, as the vendor is long dead and gone, I ended up the one keeping the memories alive ;)
Since it is DOS, it is limited to local files only --I did try all sorts of networking possibilities but the software running on it uses every last bit of memory --i.e. NIC drivers etc will simply not fit.
So, after that long prelude, what I am looking for is a solution that lets me run DOS under, say, qemu *and* have access to a local linux partition (FAT16) so that we can handle the file transfers in Linux and DOS thing thinks it is using just another disk.
Does anyone, by any chance, know how to do this --or have pointers to how it can be done.
Thank you, again.
Cheers, Adem
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