How to create a virtual CD-ROM drive in DOS and automatically run the boot file - China DOS Union Forum

Hello everyone. First of all, thanks to everyone for taking an interest in this post. I’m a newbie, please give me some guidance.
I have a question for everyone: there are already posts on the forum about successfully creating a virtual CD-ROM drive under DOS, but it seems that they only virtualize it as a drive letter, so you can work with the files, but it can’t automatically run the boot file of the virtual CD image (if the ISO is a bootable CD image).
So:
Is there any way to create a virtual CD-ROM drive under DOS and have it run automatically (that is, after loading the ISO file, the CD starts by itself and brings up a menu selection interface)? (If there is a manual way to run the boot file, that would also be fine.)
I’ve looked through a lot of materials and still can’t find anything. Sorry to trouble everyone. Thanks.

Floor1　sz88888	Posted 2005-06-18 00:00
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Hello everyone. First of all, thanks to everyone for taking an interest in this post. I’m a newbie, please give me some guidance. I have a question for everyone: there are already posts on the forum about successfully creating a virtual CD-ROM drive under DOS, but it seems that they only virtualize it as a drive letter, so you can work with the files, but it can’t automatically run the boot file of the virtual CD image (if the ISO is a bootable CD image). So: Is there any way to create a virtual CD-ROM drive under DOS and have it run automatically (that is, after loading the ISO file, the CD starts by itself and brings up a menu selection interface)? (If there is a manual way to run the boot file, that would also be fine.) I’ve looked through a lot of materials and still can’t find anything. Sorry to trouble everyone. Thanks.

Floor2　Climbing	Posted 2005-06-19 00:00
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There definitely isn't such a thing under DOS, but you can use grub.exe + IsoEmu to achieve this function.