pinion Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 I started with this: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Install-DOS-622-Under-VirtualBox/?ALLSTEPS Not sure if it's kosher but the guy gave up the setup disks here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jzm0fbnb7fz526u/mKJ19A1JMo I opened up unraid and went to the VM tab. Add VM. Selected Windows 95. Changed the name to DOS6.22. and then meh, img files are a no go. I could get a boot iso. Then could I install via img files? I don't know. Has anyone done this? Also, maybe unrelated... Is there an easy way to spin up a virtual OS in unraid? I just want to him a button and get a fresh Ubuntu LTS install that I can ssh into and start hacking away. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Don't know r.e. doing this with KVM, but I can confirm that it works just fine in VMWare. Can you use/import a VMWare virtual hard drive (.vmdk) in KVM? Quote Link to comment
peter_sm Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 You can do/try this VBoxManage clonehd /path/to/hard_drive_image/guesthd.vdi /path/to/hard_drive_image.img --format raw Then use the raw file in KVM. You can also convert raw file to qcow2 qemu-img convert -f raw hard_drive_image.img -O qcow2 hard_drive_image.qcow2 Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Can you use/import a VMWare virtual hard drive (.vmdk) in KVM? it works fine in KVM. You are not offered .vmdk as a choice when assigning the disk, but as long as you type the full path (including the .vmdk extension) into the path box it works fine. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Can you use/import a VMWare virtual hard drive (.vmdk) in KVM? it works fine in KVM. You are not offered .vmdk as a choice when assigning the disk, but as long as you type the full path (including the .vmdk extension) into the path box it works fine. Thanks ... that's good to know. Quote Link to comment
pinion Posted September 13, 2016 Author Share Posted September 13, 2016 You can do/try this VBoxManage clonehd /path/to/hard_drive_image/guesthd.vdi /path/to/hard_drive_image.img --format raw Then use the raw file in KVM. You can also convert raw file to qcow2 qemu-img convert -f raw hard_drive_image.img -O qcow2 hard_drive_image.qcow2 I like this, how would it work with 3 files since (I'm guessing) it's 3 floppy disk img files. I might just go the vmdk route if that's easier. But if I could convert it and get it running via command line I'd be happy with that. Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 Got to ask chaps, purely out of curiosity, what you want to use DOS 6.2 for? Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
pinion Posted September 13, 2016 Author Share Posted September 13, 2016 Got to ask chaps, purely out of curiosity, what you want to use DOS 6.2 for? Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk Funsies. Nostalgia. Wondering how Commander Keen would look like over VLC. Although you can do that via Dosbox on archive.org without the VLC bit. Quote Link to comment
BobPhoenix Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 Got to ask chaps, purely out of curiosity, what you want to use DOS 6.2 for? Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk Why not I've been thinking about trying Windows 3.1 myself. Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 Sounds fair enough to me, knock yourself out guys! Screenshots or it didn't happen remember! Quote Link to comment
BobPhoenix Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 Actually went with Windows For Workgroups 3.11. Had to set this up on VirtualBox first then load the VMDK in unRAID. Why isn't VMDK a selectable file for a drive image? Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 Actually went with Windows For Workgroups 3.11. Had to set this up on VirtualBox first then load the VMDK in unRAID. Why isn't VMDK a selectable file for a drive image? Note that you can also use VirtualBox .vdi files in a similar way (and this is also not a selectable option). I asked at some point for the full list of image file types supported by VirtualBox to be added, but this was turned down. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 Got to ask chaps, purely out of curiosity, what you want to use DOS 6.2 for? Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk Why not I've been thinking about trying Windows 3.1 myself. I have VM's for DOS v3, DOS v6.2, Windows 3.1, WFW 3.11, Win95, Win98 original, Win98SE, Win-ME, Win2000, etc. Don't USE them very often ... but every once-in-a-while it's fun to "play" a bit. I've been toying with the idea of setting up a DOS-based VM with UniDOS, which would allow running CP/M Quote Link to comment
DevXen Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 On 9/14/2016 at 1:08 AM, garycase said: I have VM's for DOS v3, DOS v6.2, Windows 3.1, WFW 3.11, Win95, Win98 original, Win98SE, Win-ME, Win2000, etc. Don't USE them very often ... but every once-in-a-while it's fun to "play" a bit. I've been toying with the idea of setting up a DOS-based VM with UniDOS, which would allow running CP/M Are those unraid VMs? Or are they VMs running under a Windows VM? If they are unraid VMs. How would I go about getting the image files so I could set those up on my unraid as well? Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 The old OS's I have are all VM's built with and running under VMWare Workstation on a Windows box. I also have earlier versions of them that I built when I was using Microsoft's Virtual PC many years ago (early 2000's). If you want to build these in UnRAID, you'd need the install media for the OS's. Quote Link to comment
GHunter Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 On 8/4/2019 at 4:59 AM, DevXen said: If they are unraid VMs. How would I go about getting the image files so I could set those up on my unraid as well? https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems http://vetusware.com/category/OS/?cat=1 Quote Link to comment
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