On: The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option

[mcculley]

The end user need not know it is QEMU atop Linux. They see and use DOS.

[ale42 → mcculley]

Yes, but inside a VM. What access to real hardware (e.g. to communicate with the outside world) does the user get?

[necovek → ale42]

Whatever is configured with QEMU: everything if that was the use case.

[ale42 → necovek]

But it looks like their setup is not configured to give access to hardware, at least I didn't see any options on the command line.