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Run Linux & Linux binaries on DOS (Announce)

posted by Oso2k, 23.09.2020, 04:34

> How should it work? You say it's booting linux kernel so isn't it just yet
> another linux loader for dos (like loadlin, linld)? Does it use DosEmu? Or
> it use some magic trick to boot linux on background, then switch back to
> DOS and in case of running linux binary it switched to linux again? It may
> have a sense as you say it doesn't work with XMS - so it use only low
> memory for DOS while linux use mostly the memory above 1MB so they may live
> together and swapping between. No time to play with it now...
It seems like it is the functional part of a VM executor. Enough to create a new context, boot/switch to Linux, run a binary, and then have Linux return to DOS in VM86 mode, per the author [0]. So yes, you assumption about the architecture seems to be right.

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