RE: [Qemu-devel] SMB for DOS ?

[malc]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Andreas Bollhalder wrote:

> Hello Fabrice
>
> > In order to have similar features to dosemu in QEMU, implementing
> MFS
> > support in QEMU would be useful, but it would require a lot of work.
>
> I use QEmu mainly for running GEOS under FreeDOS on my WinXP system.
> There are different drivers for DOS network file access (M$, Novell,
> Pathfinder and a lot more). MFS is the definition used under DOS.
> Unfortunatly, the Microsoft Client for DOS (SMB access) eats away the
> most of directly acessible RAM, so that a lot of apps won't run. The
> Novell client (NetWare access) doesn't work for the lack of IPX
> support.
<snip>
> I use GEOS since 1991 and have tons of documents I still use. The
> emulation in QEmu works very good. Only the sound could be a little
> bit better. The main advantage is that the network is running very
> fast compared to Bochs. I use the Novell drivers for DOS and GEOS sets
> up the TCP/IP stack on it.

If your host system is indeed WinXP i suggest rebuilding QEMU with FMOD
audio output driver, it should be much better than default SDL audio.

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