Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:55:00 +0100 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: DOS vm86 not working? |
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On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:16:49AM -0500, Gregory Stark wrote: > I just tried dosemu again after upgrading to 2.4.0pre11, and it ran my program > about halfway and then started spinning with strace reporting: > > vm86(0x1, 0x811f540, 0xa6, 0xfff8fff1, 0x81d30a4) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) > vm86(0x1, 0x811f540, 0xa6, 0xfff8fff1, 0x81d30a4) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) > vm86(0x1, 0x811f540, 0xa6, 0xfff8fff1, 0x81d30a4) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) > > I don't see any reason in the source why vm86 would report ENOSYS except if > the system call simply wasn't present. I'm not really familiar with this > source though so I could be missing something. Is there something wrong with > the vm86 code and it's just always returning ENOSYS now? > > I haven't tried this program in 2.2 yet, I'll have to do that next time I get > a chance to reboot.
What version of dosemu are you using? When running the latest kernel releases you really need a development version of dosemu. I didn't have any problem running dosesemu-1.1.1 on 2.4.0-test11. Check out http://www.dosemu.org/ for the latest release.
Erik
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