Seasons Greetings, Bernie.

On 17/11/2023 02:10, Bernie van't Hof wrote:
> Hi ya all! I am back, briefly!
> 
> Am the proud owner of a beaut M2Pro mac.
> 
> But of course the only problem is virtualbox doesn't work on apple 
> silicon, neither do the other virtualisers (for old windows os's).
> 
> Oh no! Is this the end of PDOXDOS for me?
> 
> Trying UTM (based on QEMU). All seems to be running fine. So far.

Wow! (on MAC, UTM/QEMU, etc).

VirtualBox, in general, is excellent - pity it's not built for the MAC, 
though.

FWIW.....

Some years back, I tried PDox under DOSBOX. AFAIR, it worked OK-ish, at 
a basic level, but there were nasty, deep, bugs in the emulation, that I 
tried very hard to unravel and fix, and a few of us wasted man-weeks on 
testing and debugging, and gave up, advising clients to NOT use DOSBOX.

Then VBox, also AFAIR, was/is based on DOSBOX, and looked better, but 
development and support were 'moving targets' a few years ago, and I was 
afraid to re-run the PDox stress-tests on it, and to recommend it.

I don't recall ever trying QEMU...

   - Mike