Hello, I'm completely new to MS-DOS 7.10. I just was curious how it would work in a virtual machine like virtualbox from oracle. I'm from Germany, and I don't speak chinese mandarin or such chinese languages. I just use google translate to join this community. I hope the translation achieves to be comprehensible.
I installed MS-Dos 7.10 successfully into virtualbox, and it starts and automatically vc.com volkov commander appears. So everything is fine, but when I try to stop volkov commander by typing F10, then the system stops and crashes. Also I thought, it might have something to do with long filenames LFN and lock c: or unlock C:. But that seems not to be the case. Also F4 doesn't work to edit any file, because it doesn't find the file, even it is selected before hand. I don't know what's happening. Once I had similar issues with edit.com, but then a message regarding locked drive c: appears and when I tried to unlock drive c: it never happened again. I hope everything is comprehensible and well translated. fidoo
[ Last edited by fidoo on 2019-12-4 at 05:53 ]作者: fidoo 时间: 2019-12-4 22:12 标题: 看来,gvfm罪魁祸首。- It appears, that gvfm is the culprit.
Hello,
I figured out, that not vc.com is the culprit of the system crash, but gvfm.exe. Because it is loaded by autoexec.bat in the last line. If I turn off vc.com by pressing F10, autoexec.bat will issue that gvfm.exe by using call gvfm.exe, and virtualbox freezes then and a message pops out, to shutdown or debug the virtual machine.
你好,
我想通了,没有vc.com是系统崩溃的罪魁祸首,但gvfm.exe。因为它是由autoexec.bat文件的最后一行加载。如果我关掉vc.com按F10 AUTOEXEC.BAT将发行通过呼叫gvfm.exe做gvfm.exe,然后VirtualBox的冻结,并会弹出一个对话框,关机或者调试的虚拟机。作者: yzqzss 时间: 2019-12-5 00:05 I don't know much about msdos7.1 running in a virtual. But glad you finally solved the problem.
Also, welcome to this community
[ Last edited by yzqzss on 2019-12-5 at 00:12 ]作者: yzqzss 时间: 2019-12-5 00:19 Does Germany also have website or forum or telegram group related to DOS? I'm curious 作者: fidoo 时间: 2019-12-5 07:21 I just stumbled on DOS again. I was curious about such unreleased standalone 7.10 MS-DOS. I'm a bit fascinated on vintage systems at the moment, therefore I tried to install MS-DOS 7.10 floppy disks and cdrom prepared by Wengier.
And yes, we do have some forums in germany about DOS, Win3.x and on other vintage computing subjects like CP/M, old hardware, mainframe supercomputing and personal computing of the 70ies and 80ies, VAX, OpenVMS and so on. We call t Retro.
Because of the issue appeared on MS-DOS 7.10, I asked the question here, by using google translate, because I don't understand any chinese language.
I found these sites related to my issue with gvfm.exe:
[ Last edited by fidoo on 2019-12-5 at 07:25 ]作者: fidoo 时间: 2019-12-5 07:39 At the moment I try to figure out, how I can extend vc.com by using add-ons and how to get F4 for Edit working. And also I'm curious now how to get gvfm.exe working and not to crash the system.