I chose 64 megs because that is the most that dos 6. First, you need to download and install the virtual machine, oracle virtualbox. Please like and subscribe if you enjoyed this or if it helped you. Here is my video tutorial on how to install msdos 6. These diskette images are perfect for virtual computing using products such as vmware player, vmware server, vmware esx, and microsoft virtual server. Any program that works on ms dos should also run on freedos. Freedos virtual machine images for virtualbox and vmware. Originally 86 dos, written by tim paterson of seattle computer products, dos was a rough clone of cpm for 8086 based hardware. Dos vm ms client for networks two selfextracting files dsk31. I configured the settings to use the windows directsound driver and soundblaster.
Originally 86dos, written by tim paterson of seattle computer products, dos. For a thorough introduction to virtualization and virtualbox. In this step, you will add a virtual machine that will run dos 6. Vmware workstation virtualbox might also work ms dos 6.
How to clone your boot drive to ssd without having to reinstall windows or any other programs duration. Install dos virtual machine on windows 10 platform using virtualbox virtual machine tutorial 4 duration. The installation of virtualbox is pretty straight forward so im not going to clutter up this post with lengthy instructions. Set up a dos vm with networking and shared folders virtualbox.
Microsoft purchased it and licensed it to ibm for use with microsofts ibm pc language products. I also installed the soundblaster drivers into dos. Virtualbox is a generalpurpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use. It is opensource and distributed under gnu general. First, open virtualbox at the top of the screen, you will see a button labeled new. In this video, i show you how to setup virtualbox for windows to allow you to install dos 6. Freedos is a free, complete, dos compatible operating system.