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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

Hello, I'm completely new to MS-DOS 7.10. I'm just curious about how it would work in a virtual machine like Oracle's VirtualBox. I'm from Germany, and I don't speak Mandarin Chinese or other Chinese languages. I just use Google Translate to join this community. I hope the translation is understandable.

I successfully installed MS-DOS 7.10 into VirtualBox, and it starts up and automatically brings up vc.com Volkov Commander. So everything is fine, but when I try to stop Volkov Commander by typing F10, the system stops and crashes. Also, I thought it might have something to do with long filenames (LFN) and locking/unlocking drive C:, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Also, F4 doesn't work to edit any file because it can't find the file even if it's selected beforehand. I don't know what's going on. Once I had similar issues with edit.com, but then a message about a locked drive C: appeared, and when I tried to unlock drive C:, it never happened again. I hope everything is understandable and the translation is good. fidoo

[ Last edited by fidoo on 2019-12-4 at 05:53 ]

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。

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 ]

Does Germany also have website or forum or telegram group related to DOS? I'm curious

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.

I just happened to come across DOS again. I was curious about this unreleased standalone MS-DOS 7.10. I'm a bit fascinated by vintage systems at the moment, so I tried to install the MS-DOS 7.10 floppy disks and CD-ROM 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.

And indeed, we do have some forums in Germany about DOS, Win3.x, and other vintage computing topics such as CP/M, old hardware, mainframe supercomputing, and personal computing from the 1970s and 1980s, VAX, OpenVMS, and so on. We call it 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.

Because of the issue that appeared with MS-DOS 7.10, I asked the question here using Google Translate because I don't understand any Chinese language.

I found these sites related to my issue with gvfm.exe:

I found these sites related to my issue with gvfm.exe:

German
https://www.essential-freebies.de/board/viewtopic.php?t=14077

English
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=139025
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/556350/extended-memory-mystery/
https://comp.os.msdos.programmer.narkive.com/rWRiRtPq/ann-graphic-vision-file-manager

DOS-Forum Germany
http://www.dosforum.de/
https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3
https://dosreloaded.de/forum/
https://62902.forumromanum.com/member/forum/forum.php?action=std_tindex&USER=user_62902&threadid=2
www.antonis.de/dos/index.htm
http://forum31.gaby.de/
https://forum.classic-computing.de/forum/index.php?board/67-ibm-und-kompatible/
https://www.winhistory-forum.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=24

DOS-Forum English
https://www.vogons.org/viewforum.php?f=7
http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum.php
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?22-PCs-and-Clones

[ Last edited by fidoo on 2019-12-5 at 07:25 ]

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.

Currently I am trying to figure out how I can extend vc.com with add-ons and how to make F4 work in Edit. I am also curious now about how to get gvfm.exe to work without crashing the system.

https://vvv.kiev.ua/download/
https://web.archive.org/web/20160418014225/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gvision/gv/download.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20160418014226/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gvision/gv/gvfm.htm

http://dos32a.narechk.net/index_en.html

https://www.freedos.org/lists/
https://www.classic-computing.org/