Thanks, David [W. Jones,]
IIRC, with VirtualBox, you can share a folder on the host machine with the virtual machine. I don't know how that could be accessed from the FreeDOS VM, though. That was my conceptual problem also. But there might be installable network drivers plus a net use command (or something similar) to make that happen...
This might be the way to do that: ------- I just chanced across this in the VirtualBox docs: "Set up a DOS VM with networking (and shared folders)" https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Sharing_files_with_DOS Excerpt: "Now I can read from and write to my host's drive from the VirtualBox DOS machine!" I realize that the described procedure might be no longer be needed if networking features are built into newer VM versions or the Extension Pack... Also, this method might take too much memory away from DOS for Fractint to run. ------- Q:
the FreeDOS Fractint appliance just hangs on my Debian systems here. Oops. Sorry. Does "appliance" refer to the FreeDOS/Fractint VirtualBox .ova image, from here: https://fractint.net/ftp/virtual_environments/ ? <-- <--
I also have DOS Fractint running under DOSBox emulator. I believe that has a command (to run in the DOSBox) that maps a Linux folder to a drive letter in the DOSBox. Then you can read and write files from DOS Fractint while having easy access to them from Linux. If I could do the same thing to a Windows folder that would be another great option. It almost sounds like Fractint could write its image files directly to the host OS's drive!
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I prefer XFractint even if it does lack color cycling. I've not seen XFractint running. Is XFractint's user interface still text, or did a graphical user interface get added?
I just chanced across this: "How to migrate existing Windows installations to VirtualBox" https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows Excerpt: ----- Windows installations, unlike Linux, cannot easily be moved from one hardware to another. This is not just due to Microsoft's activation mechanism but the fact that the installed kernel and drivers depend on the actual hardware. This document explains the common pitfalls and how to workaround these. We assume that either a physical Windows installation or a VMware image is the source of migration. ----- - Hal Lane ######################## # hallane@earthlink.net ######################## -----Original Message----- From: Fractint [mailto:fractint-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of david Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2017 10:08 PM To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Fractint] VirtualBox version of FreeDos with Fractint IIRC, with VirtualBox, you can share a folder on the host machine with the virtual machine. I don't know how that could be accessed from the FreeDOS VM, though. Unfortunately for me, the FreeDOS Fractint appliance just hangs on my Debian systems here. I also have DOS Fractint running under DOSBox emulator. I believe that has a command (to run in the DOSBox) that maps a Linux folder to a drive letter in the DOSBox. Then you can read and write files from DOS Fractint while having easy access to them from Linux. I prefer XFractint even if it does lack color cycling. -- David W. Jones gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com _______________________________________________ Fractint mailing list Fractint@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus