[ros-dev] (Free)DOS subsystem

[Aleksey Bragin]

	Hello Imre,
it's very nice to see you on this mailing list!


A proper, Windows-compatible DOS subsystem would be implementing a  
NTVDM thing, however it's not a very trivial thing to do (I wish  
Myria has time to do it somewhen :-) ).

But we thought a lot about using dosbox/qemu/dosemu with a freedos  
installed in order to give a virtual machine running DOS (FreeDOS)  
for users. The problem exists though how to access hardware (like  
harddisks for example)...

I'm interested in your idea, and if you need any help with reactos -  
please feel free to post here.


With the best regards,
Aleksey Bragin
ReactOS Project Coordinator


On Aug 28, 2006, at 10:48 PM, Imre Leber wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I guess i am new to this list.
>
> I have been a maintainer on the FreeDOS project for more then 7 years.
>
> I have also noticed that you are still looking into building a DOS  
> subsystem in reactos.
>
> After the release of FreeDOS version 1, I would like to see wether  
> I could not take up the task to having it running under reactos.
>
> My main idea involves using a port of DOSemu.
>
> Is there any documentation regarding the running of a DOS subsystem  
> in windows that I should study beforehand?
>
> Imre