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OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical => Virtualization => Topic started by: Martin Iturbide on February 05, 2025, 07:01:54 pm

Title: DOS VDM does not loads
Post by: Martin Iturbide on February 05, 2025, 07:01:54 pm
Hello

I have here ArcaOS 5.1 on VirtualBox as a guest. DOS VDM (Windowed and full screen) used to work fine, but now don't. I don't remember any change I did that may affect the DOS VDM.

When I run it, I see a quick popup of the window and then it quits.

I got this error on the popuplog.
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02-05-2025  12:58:38  SYS3170  PID 004a  TID 0001  Slot 0089
C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
f1520005
f1520005
EAX=00000000  EBX=00000000  ECX=00000000  EDX=00000002
ESI=00004dbd  EDI=00000000 
DS=c000  DSACC=****  DSLIM=******** 
ES=c000  ESACC=****  ESLIM=******** 
FS=0000  FSACC=****  FSLIM=********
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=e10e:0000ffff  CSACC=****  CSLIM=********
SS:ESP=9f4c:00000322  SSACC=****  SSLIM=********
EBP=00009f4c  FLG=00020246


Even that I can revert back the VM, I want to know any suggestion of what I did to broke those, or if there is a way to fix it back.

Regards
Title: Re: DOS VDM does not loads
Post by: Roderick Klein on February 05, 2025, 07:17:41 pm
Or did you upgrade the Virtualbox version recently and that broken it ?

Roderick
Title: Re: DOS VDM does not loads
Post by: Martin Iturbide on February 05, 2025, 10:02:47 pm
Hello Roderick

I updated the host to 7.1.6 some days ago. But DOS VDM is not a thing that I use everyday to confirm that is the issue.

There is something strange here.
- Win-OS/2 mode is working.
- I had rebooted the VM, (Installed XWP), and now the DOS VDM runs, but if I execute a "dir" when it reaches the end, it crash, the same for full screen.

Regards
Title: Re: DOS VDM does not loads
Post by: Martin Iturbide on February 06, 2025, 06:45:19 pm
Hello

On Virtualbox host to 7.1.6, I created a new ArcaOS 5.1 (BIOS) VM, and the DOS VDM (Windowed and full screen) works fine. I'm guessing this rules out Virtualbox 7.1.6 and it should something extra that is causing me that issue on the other VM.

Regards
Title: Re: DOS VDM does not loads
Post by: Martin Iturbide on February 07, 2025, 11:15:32 pm
I also don't see anything strange on the autoexec.bat.

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@ECHO OFF
ECHO.
PROMPT $i$p$g
REM SET DELDIR=C:\DELETE,512;S:\DELETE,512;T:\DELETE,512;Z:\DELETE,512;
SET WIN3DIR=C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2
PATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;C:\sys\MDOS\BIN;C:\TCPIP\DOS\BIN;
LOADHIGH APPEND C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM
SET TMP=C:\var\temp
LOADHIGH C:\sys\MDOS\BIN\2GBFIX.COM >NUL
LOADHIGH DOSKEY FINDFILE=DIR /A /S /B $*
LOADHIGH MOUSE
DOSKEY EDIT=QBASIC/EDITOR $*
SET DIRCMD=/A
SET TEMP=C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\TEMP
SET ETC=C:\TCPIP\DOS\ETC