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posted by rr Homepage E-mail, Berlin, Germany, 09.02.2024, 16:56

> > Acrodos runs fine for me in VirtualBox 6.1.48 on a Linux Mint 20.2 host.
>
> For me it creates a Double Fault error under VirtualBox 7.0.8 with a
> Windows 10 Host. It's possible it runs on some versions of Virtual Box and
No difference when doing a clean (= no config.sys & autoexec.bat) boot?
(J)EMM386 or other drivers/TSRs could be problematic.

Just in case you want to dig deeper, here is hardware part of my DOS VM.

    <Hardware>
      <CPU>
        <PAE enabled="false"/>
        <LongMode enabled="false"/>
        <HardwareVirtExLargePages enabled="false"/>
      </CPU>
      <Memory RAMSize="32"/>
      <Boot>
        <Order position="1" device="HardDisk"/>
        <Order position="2" device="Floppy"/>
        <Order position="3" device="DVD"/>
        <Order position="4" device="None"/>
      </Boot>
      <Display VRAMSize="9"/>
      <BIOS>
        <SmbiosUuidLittleEndian enabled="true"/>
      </BIOS>
      <Network>
        <Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="XXXXXXXXXXXX">
          <DisabledModes>
            <InternalNetwork name="intnet"/>
            <NATNetwork name="NatNetwork"/>
          </DisabledModes>
          <BridgedInterface name="wlp5s0"/>
        </Adapter>
      </Network>
      <UART>
        <Port slot="0" enabled="true" IOBase="0x3f8" IRQ="4" hostMode="Disconnected"/>
      </UART>
      <AudioAdapter controller="SB16" driver="Pulse" enabled="true" enabledOut="true"/>
      <SharedFolders>
        <SharedFolder name="SVDSHARE" hostPath="/home/robert/Shares/SVDSHARE" writable="true" autoMount="true" autoMountPoint="S"/>
      </SharedFolders>
      <Clipboard/>
      <GuestProperties>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/HostInfo/GUI/LanguageID" value="de_DE" timestamp="1707423791337345000" flags="RDONLYGUEST"/>
      </GuestProperties>
      <StorageControllers>
        <StorageController name="Floppy" type="I82078" PortCount="1" useHostIOCache="true" Bootable="true">
          <AttachedDevice type="Floppy" hotpluggable="false" port="0" device="0">
            <Image uuid="{4de86d17-40cb-48b6-b778-19add1a81740}"/>
          </AttachedDevice>
        </StorageController>
        <StorageController name="IDE" type="PIIX4" PortCount="2" useHostIOCache="true" Bootable="true">
          <AttachedDevice passthrough="false" type="DVD" hotpluggable="false" port="1" device="0"/>
          <AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" hotpluggable="false" port="0" device="0">
            <Image uuid="{e2c5e2cd-c3aa-4532-a6aa-aa85db71a43e}"/>
          </AttachedDevice>
        </StorageController>
      </StorageControllers>
    </Hardware>

> not others, or it could also depend on the Host, or on the version of DOS
> being run in the VM, or something else. With VM's there are so many
> variables it's difficult to isolate.
Agreed.

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