Re: [ros-dev] RE : Re: (Free)DOS subsystem

[D. Hazelton]

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 04:54, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>   Hi,
>
>  --- Imre Leber <imre.leber(a)telenet.be> a écrit :
> >   DOSemu has a 80386 emulator on board.
> >
> >  Or at least in the sources. It doesn't seem to be in the DOSemu
> >  documentation so it seems that it is non-functional.
> >
> >  But it is always easier to fix something then to restart from scratch. 
>  Like e.g. Windows ? Bad answer ;) 
Not like Windows. The 386 emulator is used on systems that lack the vm86 
system call. For DOSemu to run on an x86 platform *without* needing an 
emulator it needs a way to run the executable in a sandboxed x86 VM. In Linux 
on the x86 platform this is supplied by the vm86 syscall.

DRH

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>  Sylvain Petreolle (aka Usurp)
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