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    From me@privacy.net@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 23 18:52:51 2022
    Nowadays it's getting more and more difficult to install WfW in
    VirtualBox or VMWare. Plain installation (mostly) works but after
    setting up networks the guest system can't start anymore. Does
    anybody know about a workaround?

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  • From Michael Trew@21:1/5 to me@privacy.net on Wed Nov 23 18:00:19 2022
    On 11/23/2022 12:52, me@privacy.net wrote:

    Nowadays it's getting more and more difficult to install WfW in
    VirtualBox or VMWare. Plain installation (mostly) works but after
    setting up networks the guest system can't start anymore. Does anybody
    know about a workaround?

    I still have a functional WFW 3.11 machine; a Gateway 2000 from circa
    1994. I don't use virtual box or VMWare; I've always used actual
    hardware. I still have a collection of "ancient" PC's in the cellar.
    It's more fun, in my opinion, to use actual hardware.

    Have you tried DOSBox? Is that the same thing as VirtualBox/VMWare?

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  • From me@privacy.net@21:1/5 to Michael Trew on Thu Nov 24 00:54:54 2022
    Michael Trew wrote:
    On 11/23/2022 12:52, me@privacy.net wrote:

    Nowadays it's getting more and more difficult to install WfW in
    VirtualBox or VMWare. Plain installation (mostly) works but after
    setting up networks the guest system can't start anymore. Does
    anybody
    know about a workaround?

    I still have a functional WFW 3.11 machine; a Gateway 2000 from
    circa 1994.  I don't use virtual box or VMWare; I've always used
    actual hardware.  I still have a collection of "ancient" PC's in
    the cellar. It's more fun, in my opinion, to use actual hardware.

    Have you tried DOSBox?  Is that the same thing as VirtualBox/VMWare?

    I'd like to create and publish a specialised VM with WfW. I'd
    prefer the above two software because they are widespread and easy
    to use. I wanted to try DOSBox-X, PCEM, 86Box and Bochs but cannot
    install them on my Ubuntu 21.4. The developers do not provide .deb
    packages for Ubuntu, there are lots of dependency problems and I
    really don't want to recompile such big programs. QEMU would work
    but it's considered difficult to use, especially the networking part.

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