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Re: VirtualBox or VMware?



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Mark Allums wrote:

> 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.

I presently have a dual core Intel CPU running in 32 bit mode with
Lenny.  Dosemu works quite well on it.  I think I should be able to run
Windows 98 with WP 7 or higher in VBox.  The VBox website says that VBox
users have run Windows 98 on VBox successfully, but nobody on the VBox
team has tried it.  When I was still using Windows 98 (I have never used
any Windows version later than 98 because I changed over to Linux
instead of upgrading Windows.) I had no trouble with WP 7.  It remains
to be seen whether a later version of WP will work on Windows 98; I have
WP 12 to try.

Regards, Ken Heard

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