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IT - Virtualization - MS-DOS 6.22 on VirtualBox 6.1 for Windows 10 x64

Installed and working

  • Host platform: Windows 10 64-bits
  • Hypervisor (Type 2): VirtualBox 6.1 (configuration as below)
  • Guest: MS-DOS 6.22 English US (ENU)
    • More information here.
    • Download MS-DOS 6.22 from here.
Steps
  1. Install VirtualBox from https://www.virtualbox.org 
  2. Create Guest using the same parameters as the configuration file below.
  3. Install MS-DOS
VirtualBox configuration file

/cygdrive/f/VMs, Emulators, Simulators/VirtualBox VMs/MS-DOS/Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22
Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22.vbox 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
** If you make changes to this file while any VirtualBox related application
** is running, your changes will be overwritten later, without taking effect.
** Use VBoxManage or the VirtualBox Manager GUI to make changes.
-->
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.virtualbox.org/" version="1.15-windows">
  <Machine uuid="{663cecba-8490-4e12-86a9-b43985c37012}" name="Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22" OSType="Netware" snapshotFolder="Snapshots" lastStateChange="2022-03-09T20:44:41Z">
    <Description>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DOS_operating_systems</Description>
    <MediaRegistry>
      <HardDisks>
        <HardDisk uuid="{b45b0199-5089-4e8b-bfdf-50d2bb60f765}" location="Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal"/>
      </HardDisks>
    </MediaRegistry>
    <ExtraData>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastCloseAction" value="PowerOff"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastNormalWindowPosition" value="1248,568,720,451"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastScaleWindowPosition" value="2296,362,1438,861"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/Scale" value="true"/>
    </ExtraData>
    <Hardware>
      <CPU>
        <PAE enabled="false"/>
        <LongMode enabled="false"/>
        <HardwareVirtExLargePages enabled="true"/>
      </CPU>
      <Memory RAMSize="64"/>
      <Paravirt provider="Default"/>
      <Display VRAMSize="9"/>
      <VideoCapture screens="1" file="." fps="25"/>
      <RemoteDisplay enabled="false"/>
      <BIOS>
        <SmbiosUuidLittleEndian enabled="true"/>
      </BIOS>
      <Network>
        <Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="080027017892" cable="true" type="Am79C973">
          <NAT/>
        </Adapter>
      </Network>
      <AudioAdapter driver="DirectSound" enabled="true" enabledIn="false"/>
      <Clipboard/>
      <GuestProperties>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/HostInfo/GUI/LanguageID" value="en_US" timestamp="1646858681792582600" flags=""/>
      </GuestProperties>
    </Hardware>
    <StorageControllers>
      <StorageController name="Floppy" type="I82078" PortCount="1" useHostIOCache="true" Bootable="true">
        <AttachedDevice type="Floppy" hotpluggable="false" port="0" device="0"/>
      </StorageController>
      <StorageController name="IDE" type="PIIX4" PortCount="2" useHostIOCache="true" Bootable="true">
        <AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" hotpluggable="false" port="0" device="0">
          <Image uuid="{b45b0199-5089-4e8b-bfdf-50d2bb60f765}"/>
        </AttachedDevice>
        <AttachedDevice passthrough="false" type="DVD" hotpluggable="false" port="1" device="0">
          <HostDrive src="D:"/>
        </AttachedDevice>
      </StorageController>
    </StorageControllers>
    <Groups>
      <Group name="/MS-DOS"/>
    </Groups>
  </Machine>
</VirtualBox>

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