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Mounting PCI in DosBox

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First post, by God_of_Chaos

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Sorry if this is the wrong way of phrasing the question...

How do you mount a PCI device in DosBox? Or can you? If you can use a PCI in DosBox what are some of the basic commands for interfacing with it?

Background if it helps:

I'm running DosBox 0.74-2 in Ubuntu 12.10.

I'm trying to replace our old system with more a modern one. We currently run DOS based software on hardware that is 10+ years old are having trouble replacing that hardware as it isn't made anymore. After a 2000 mile move across the US and 10 years of heavy use our old hardware is dropping like flies.

My solution is to run this software on DosBox in Linux since we can use modern hardware. The only thing that isn't working is reading data from a PCI card. Everything else is working and I know the PCI card works since it works on a DOS machine.

Reply 1 of 2, by Dominus

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Dosbox is the wrong tool for that. The developers warn against using it for anything else than games. And reading from a pci card is nothing implemented

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Reply 2 of 2, by mr_bigmouth_502

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I don't believe PCI is even implemented in mainstream builds of DosBox. The reason for this is because DosBox is focused on only emulating whatever is necessary for playing DOS games, and unfortunately that means it lacks support for a lot of things that business applications require.

You might want to try something like Virtualbox or VMWare. Those are more suited to business applications.

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