Re: dosemu or dosbox

[Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>]

On Sunday 04 June 2006 12:36, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Alexander Samad wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have need to run a text only dos application on my debian box, does
> > dosemu not exist on amd64 ?  But I found dosbox - any one use this
> > successfully
> >
> >
> > Its a old pabx configuration program 8)
>
> The dosemu package is only Architecture: i386.  I guess that means you
> could probably run it in a chroot, but not natively.

I doubt it will work at all. IIRC dosemu requires 16-bit vm86 mode, which is 
only available in legacy (ie. 32-bit kernel) mode on amd64 cpus.

Paul