Subj : Re: Dosemu 2 issue...
To   : All
From : Nigel Reed
Date : Thu Jul 18 2024 10:59 am

On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:20:19 +0000
"Maurice Kinal" (1:153/7001.2989)
<Maurice.Kinal@p2989.f7001.n153.z1.fidonet> wrote:

> Hey Martin!
> 
>  MK> I have to run it on the guest, I'm not running Linux on the host
>  MK> and it wouldn't be feasible.  
> 
> Why not?  Linux runs fine as a host, although I am still not sure
> dosemu2 will work on anything I have running here.  I lack the
> dependencies required as well as all the machines I have a pure 64
> bit.
> 
>  MK> This is mostly used by BBS sysops in order to run DOS doors,
>  MK> under a VM.  
> 
> Understood.  Last time I had it working ws on a 486 with no VM (i486
> linux host).  That was over 25 years ago.  I still am suspicious
> about running it within a guest no matter what.  Have you had it
> working before?

You obviously don't understand how DOSEMU interacts with a BBS to
provide DOS emulation then.



THis is my dosemu.conf for running locallly on linux.

$_cpu = "80586"
$_cpu_emu = "fullsim"
$_floppy_a = ""
$_cdrom = ""
$_xms = (8192)
$_ems = (2048)
$_ems_frame = (0xe000)
$_external_char_set = "cp437"
$_internal_char_set = "cp437"
$_term_updfreq = (8)
$_layout = "us"
$_rawkeyboard = (auto)
$_mouse_internal = (on)
$_mouse_dev = ""
$_joy_device = ""
$_lpt1 = ""
$_lp2 = ""
$_speaker = ""
$_sound = (off)
$_sb_dsp = ""
$_hdimage = "+0 -2 /sbbs/ctrl /sbbs/data /sbbs/exec +1"
$_rdtsc = (on)
$_cpuspeed = (0)
$_hogthreshold = (5)



If you're not using synchronet you can remove the $_hdimage line.


Then to invoke it:

/usr/bin/env HOME=/sbbs/ctrl /usr/bin/dosemu -d /sbbs/node1/ -d
/sbbs/xtrn -d /sbbs/ctrl/ -d /sbbs/data/ -d /sbbs/exec/ -d /sbbs/xtrn
-f/sbbs/ctrl/dosemu-local.conf

-d is just a list of directories, you can add your own or remove as
necessary and -f points to where you saved the config file.

You should update doemu2 to a version built on or after 17th July if
there is one for Windows. I know there was some issues with the linux
version.
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