MS-Dos VMs

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andylong

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Hello all

I’m trying to get an MS-DOS VM built under Parallels on my Macbook Pro, but there doesn't seem to be a way to get a brand new VM to boot up from my floppy disk copies of DOS. Could someone enlighten me on how to build such a VM or point me at some pre-built ones (preferably with Extended an expanded memory, and a CD drive).

I've tried to transport my VPC 7 disk images, but paralells claims not to be able to find an operating system on the VHD after the transport operation completes.

Regards, Andy
 
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I had zero trouble installing from floppy images. The ones I found had a suffix of .IMA, but they were right size, so I renamed them to .fdd, made floppy disk first in the boot order, and all went as hoped for. I did not need to manually partition the drive or anything, it formatted it during MS-DOS setup. (This was going with the defaults of the OS under Other > MS-DOS 6.22 when setting up a machine manually.)
 
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AlanH3 said:
I was very pleased to find this thread - even if it is a bit old now - because it helped me set up an MSDOS VM again. The one thing I can't get it do at the moment is read floppy drive A:. I have a USB floppy disk drive plugged into the iMac and theoretically mapped to the VM but it won't "see" it. Is the "dinosaur" still around and perhaps could point me in the right direction?
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I tried to do this, but no matter what I choose at the warning dialogue, it always gets automatically reset to 32 MB of RAM.
 
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