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My only success so far is setting up a VM that boots from a FreeDOS floppy image. I then find that the VM is a tight little bubble with no access to the outside world.

I used Devices > Mount CD/DVD-ROM and pointed it to the ISO of the FreeDOS install disk. In FreeDOS, I would need to access the drive using a drive letter. I have gone up and down the alphabet, c:, d:, e: ... z:. No access to the CD! No access to anything except A:. I also tried Devices > Shared Folders. Again, no information about the drive letter. No access to the share from FreeDOS.

I was able to get a functional VM that boots from a floppy disk image of FreeDOS. But there is no access to any other disk! How do I get files into or out of the VM?

Would I have to create my entire desired environment on a hard disk partition first, create an image of it and then load that image as a floppy or CD?



Maybe I don't get the concept. The VM is a tightly closed bubble.

Try Googling this on the Google.com with site:forums.virtualbox.org at the end of the search string.

• It would have returned this http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=865

You need to add drivers that loads tcp/ip, then you can access a network share, see this forum http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewforum.php?f=4

As it turned out, I needed to fdisk and format the virtual hard drive that I wanted to use. As for CD access from within FreeDOS, I needed to run loaddcd for that. Now I have a working FreeDOS VM.