Re: VirtualBox or VMware?
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Mark Allums wrote:
> Ken Heard wrote:
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>> I should have explained in my original post what I wanted to do. In the
>> short run I want to run a Windows version of WordPerfect and so have
>> access to WordPerfect 5.1 (a DOS app) files that I have been creating
>> since the 80s, the contents of which I want to use now in a book I am
>> putting together.
>>
>> I was thinking of installing on VBox Windows 98, the only Windows
>> version I have, and install WP 7 or later for Windows in order to access
>> my WP 5.1 files. In this way I can save my WP 5.1 files in ps or pdf
>> and use them elsewhere. (I tried using OpenOffice but WP formatting is
>> lost when opening WP files in OOo.)
>>
>> So it would appear from the posts that I should use VirtualBox for now.
>> I could also install DOS on it and see if DOS apps work better on VBox
>> than on dosemu.
>>
>> Thank you all for your advice.
>
>
> VBox will still provide your full virtualized CPU; so if trying DOS,
> disable as much as you can, like hardware support for virtualization. Be
> sure you run in a 32-bit mode. DOS is not compatible with the most
> recent CPUs from Intel. 16-bit support is there (barely), but the
> chipset and motherboard will make it dicey. 64-bit mode is completely
> incompatible with a 16-bit program.
>
> For what you are doing, I think VBox is a good choice.
>
> M. Allums
I don't have a VirtualBox installation here, so I can't check, but I do
believe that you can tell VirtualBox that you are running MS-DOS in your
VM, just as you can tell it's running Linux or Windows. I assume this
will automatically set the settings you are referencing. I could be
wrong though.
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