One little related point. What happens when during VME's V86 mode an IRET is executed with IOPL<3? Is it throwing a #GP(0) or acting the same way as IOPL 3, but with virtualized IF etc.? So the same like POPF regarding faults, VIP and IF/VIF?

Edit: Also, what is the fault return instruction? Is the fault handler return address to the IRET without anything popped, or is the return address the instruction after the IRET has completed? So will the IRET complete, then a fault is thrown before starting the instruction the IRET returns to, with VIF and VIP on the fault handler's stack being set?

According to what I can find, V86MON seems to be able to use all different V86 modes, including VME. But I can't find it anywhere? Anyone has a working link to that one? I could really use it to verify VME emulation correctness(as well as normal V86 mode).

Edit: Managed to find it in some archive called PJ84.zip(https://www.pcorner.com/list/MAG/PJ84.ZIP/INFO/).

I used these programs when testing my implementation, might be helpful: http://www.rcollins.org/articles/vme1/

Looked there originally, but looking again(for the dloads link)...

I notice the V86MON1.ZIP and VME1.ZIP are actually v86mon1.zip and vme1.zip when manually listing the dloads directory. Perhaps he, while uploading, forgot the case sensitivity or was using a Windows or MS-DOS machine(for the HTML pages)? Anyway, the files are there, the links to them are dead(upper case instead of lower case) 😖

I just ran all vme1-8 examples. They all report "Passed.".

I also ran both v86mon and ev86mon programs. They say they're running the 8086 instruction mix(at 500KIPS Pentium emulation of UniPCemu), reporting 1350D2D8 cycles on V86, and a lot smaller number on EV86(VME).

Does that mean the VME emulation is working correctly? It doesn't look like those two start becoming resident, like EMM386 does?

Is there any full VME using EMS memory manager for MS-DOS around? So like JEMM386, but using all VME functionality(thus, including VIP flag usage for interrupts)?

I *think* qemm might use it, but I can't remember for sure.

Just installed QEMM 7.0(7.5 sometimes in the installer). UniPCemu shows the CR4's bit 0&4 being set, so VME is active at least. I don't see if it's using virtual interrupts are being used(in particular VIP), but it's running correctly.

The VIP flag isn't being set, it seems?

Hmmm... With QEMM, checkit diagnostics crashes with a R6001, CPU speed has no effect on it.

EMS test(from the emulated EMS board website) has no issues.
So does No$GMB.

Simcity seems to be unresponsive, perhaps due to no installed mouse driver?

This is the ev86mon being ran(but returns to the MS-DOS prompt, not resident):

Is there a way to make it resident? To run other apps with it, other than the 8086 instruction mix?