Re: (free)dos under xen

[Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@diku.dk>]

James Harper wrote:
> I may have already asked this a while ago... would it be possible for
> dos (free or ms) to run under xen, or does it have to be 'protected'
> mode operating system?
> 
> And if dos worked, what are the chances of getting some of the 386
> extender (dos4gw if I remember correctly) style games working? Or is
> that precisely the thing that would need to be recompiled to work under
> xen?
> 
> If only real mode dos could work, how easy would it be to modify the xen
> scheduler to simulate a much slower machine?
> 

hi,

if what you want is a slower machine, why not just use Bochs?

Jacob


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