Okay, I've got doesemu2 working, but I still get an error /dev/kvm does not exist upon loading a door. I have looked into this, and I think it is because I am running on a server version of Linux (no gui), and dosemu is attempting to load something in the gui environment. Doors are functioning perfectly fine, but I get that error message at the launch each time.

Does anyone know of a way to supress this message?

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On Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:01:42 -0400
"Morpheus" <morpheus@VERT/MORPHEUS> wrote:

Okay, I've got doesemu2 working, but I still get an error /dev/kvm
does not exist upon loading a door. I have looked into this, and I
think it is because I am running on a server version of Linux (no
gui), and dosemu is attempting to load something in the gui
environment. Doors are functioning perfectly fine, but I get that
error message at the launch each time.

Does anyone know of a way to supress this message?

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If you don't have /dev/kvm then it means you don't have virtualiztion
enabled in your BIOS.
If your system is virtualized then it's unlikely your provider will
enable virtualization pass-thru.
grep --color vmx /proc/cpuinfo #intel
grep --color svm /proc/cpuinfo #amd
Could do use the brute force method:
mknod /dev/kvm c 10 232
But good luck with that.
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Re: Re: dosemu2
By: Nelgin to Morpheus on Thu Sep 29 2022 04:31 pm

If you don't have /dev/kvm then it means you don't have virtualiztion enabled in your BIOS.

It is enabled on the bare metal machine, but the machine is running Proxmox, which is running Ubuntu in a VM. Ubuntu is running dosemu2.

I tested dosemu on a Linux install that included a GUI, and I didn't get that message. Only on the server install.

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Re: Re: dosemu2
By: Morpheus to Nelgin on Fri Sep 30 2022 09:05:56

I tested dosemu on a Linux install that included a GUI, and I didn't get that message. Only on the server install.

Well, did the GUI version have a /dev/kvm file?
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Re: dosemu2
By: Morpheus to All on Thu Sep 29 2022 11:01:42

Okay, I've got doesemu2 working, but I still get an error /dev/kvm does not exist upon loading a door. I have looked into
this, and I think it is because I am running on a server version of Linux (no gui), and dosemu is attempting to load
something in the gui environment. Doors are functioning perfectly fine, but I get that error message at the launch each
time.
Does anyone know of a way to supress this message?

just ignore it it's fine.. you'll get that because you're not running in a console session and that you aren't running virtualised..

it's fine and not an issue.

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Re: Re: dosemu2
By: Morpheus to Nelgin on Fri Sep 30 2022 09:05:56

Re: Re: dosemu2
By: Nelgin to Morpheus on Thu Sep 29 2022 04:31 pm

If you don't have /dev/kvm then it means you don't have virtualiztion enabled in your BIOS.

It is enabled on the bare metal machine, but the machine is running Proxmox, which is running Ubuntu in a VM. Ubuntu is
running dosemu2.
I tested dosemu on a Linux install that included a GUI, and I didn't get that message. Only on the server install.

you will because it's in a virtual machine.

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Re: Door help
By: Nightfox to Havok on Mon Feb 13 2023 12:05 pm


Hello

If you would tell me the upside of running doseemu2 over dosemu?

I see you can build it yourself, I was hoping for the real easy
way out of just installing it by .deb.

But anyway I would like to know about the upside.

Thanks...


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Re: dosemu2
By: Havok to Nightfox on Mon Feb 20 2023 10:00 pm

If you would tell me the upside of running doseemu2 over dosemu?

TradeWars 2002 works with dosemu2.
TradeWars 2002 doesn't seem to work with dosemu 1.x.

I see you can build it yourself, I was hoping for the real easy
way out of just installing it by .deb.

You can also install dosemu2 via your package manager.

Nightfox

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Re: dosemu2
By: Nightfox to Havok on Tue Feb 21 2023 09:37 am

You can also install dosemu2 via your package manager.

Wow now I'll glad I wrote you, looks like I got something more to do
tomorrow!

Thanks, your always a big help!
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Re: dosemu2
By: Greg Youngblood to Nightfox on Tue Feb 21 2023 06:21 pm

Wow now I'll glad I wrote you, looks like I got something more to do tomorrow!

There's a page on the Synchronet wiki with some tips on setting up dosemu2 with Synchronet:
http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dosemu2

Nightfox

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Re: dosemu2
By: Nightfox to Greg Youngblood on Tue Feb 21 2023 05:11 pm

There's a page on the Synchronet wiki with some tips on setting up dosemu2 with Synchronet:
http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dosemu2

Hello Nightfox

That will help, thanks for the information!
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Re: dosemu2
By: Nightfox to Greg Youngblood on Tue Feb 21 2023 05:11 pm

There's a page on the Synchronet wiki with some tips on setting up dosemu2 with Synchronet:
http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dosemu2

Thanks I'm glad you enjoy reading!
Every little bit helps...


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Whoever got dosemu2 working, can you please send me the following:

directory /sbbs/ctrl/.dosemu
files dosemu.ini dosemu.conf external.bat

scfg display of one of the dos program's configs.

Any other related/useful files I may have forgotten.


The wiki instructions aren't exactly working as advertised. I'l like to try and figure where I'm going wrong and make things a bit easier in future.

Thanks,
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Re: dosemu2
By: Nelgin to All on Wed Jul 12 2023 02:28 pm

Whoever got dosemu2 working, can you please send me the following:

directory /sbbs/ctrl/.dosemu
files dosemu.ini dosemu.conf external.bat

scfg display of one of the dos program's configs.

Any other related/useful files I may have forgotten.

The wiki instructions aren't exactly working as advertised. I'l like to try and figure where I'm going wrong and make things a bit easier in future.

I put together a zip file of what I have: http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com:81/synchronet_stuff/dosemu.zip

Nightfox

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Re: dosemu2
By: Nightfox to Nelgin on Wed Jul 12 2023 16:51:34

I put together a zip file of what I have: http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com:81/synchronet_stuff/dosemu.zip

Thank you. I that really helped. Along with the dosemu2 dev, I now have Tradewars, Yankee Trader, Space Quest and all my other stuff working in dosemu2 without all that blurb when starting up.

I need to run a few more tests then I'll package it all up with instructions for anyone else who would like to give it a try.

Thanks,
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Re: dosemu2
By: Nelgin to Nightfox on Fri Jul 14 2023 03:07 am

Thank you. I that really helped. Along with the dosemu2 dev, I now have Tradewars, Yankee Trader, Space Quest and all my other stuff working in dosemu2 without all that blurb when starting up.

I need to run a few more tests then I'll package it all up with instructions for anyone else who would like to give it a try.

I had updated the Synchronet wiki page for dosemu2 with the steps that allowed it to work for me. If there was something different/additional that helped you get it to work on your system, it might be good to add to the wiki page.

One thing I've noticed is that after a few days, dosemu2 will fail, and it typically has been reporting an error about too many file handles being open. I've noticed that rebooting my BBS PC helps that, but I'd like to find a fix that doesn't require restarting my PC.

Nightfox

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Re: dosemu2
By: Nelgin to Nightfox on Fri Jul 14 2023 03:07 am

Thank you. I that really helped. Along with the dosemu2 dev, I now have Tradewars, Yankee Trader, Space Quest and all my other stuff working in dosemu2 without all that blurb when starting up.

Have you tried playing Yankee Trader for more than a few minutes to see how long it runs without crashing? Genuinely curious.

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Re: dosemu2
By: Codefenix to Nelgin on Fri Jul 14 2023 12:12:18

Have you tried playing Yankee Trader for more than a few minutes to see how long it runs without crashing? Genuinely curious.

Just played for about 10 minutes. Seemed fine.
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On 7/12/2023 7:51 PM, Nightfox wrote:

Re: dosemu2
By: Nelgin to All on Wed Jul 12 2023 02:28 pm

Ne> Whoever got dosemu2 working, can you please send me the following:

I put together a zip file of what I have: http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com:81/synchronet_stuff/dosemu.zip

Is there an advantage to using this? I just grabbed a deb package from
an older ubuntu distro and it works on Mint 21.1.

Thanks!

Mindless Automaton

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Re: Re: dosemu2
By: Mindless Automaton to Nightfox on Sat Jul 15 2023 07:41 pm

Whoever got dosemu2 working, can you please send me the following:

I put together a zip file of what I have:
http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com:81/synchronet_stuff/dosemu.zip

Is there an advantage to using this?

As opposed to what?

If you're running your BBS on Linux, dosemu might be the only way to run DOS doors for your BBS.

Nightfox

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On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 19:41:33 -0400
"Mindless Automaton" (VERT/ELDRITCH) <VERT/ELDRITCH!Mindless.Automaton@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

On 7/12/2023 7:51 PM, Nightfox wrote:

Re: dosemu2
By: Nelgin to All on Wed Jul 12 2023 02:28 pm

Ne> Whoever got dosemu2 working, can you please send me the
Ne> following:

I put together a zip file of what I have: http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com:81/synchronet_stuff/dosemu.zip

Is there an advantage to using this? I just grabbed a deb package
from an older ubuntu distro and it works on Mint 21.1.

If it works for you, then no, not really.
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On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 07:58:36 -0700
"Nightfox" (VERT/DIGDIST) <VERT/DIGDIST!Nightfox@endofthelinebbs.com>
wrote:

Re: Re: dosemu2
By: Mindless Automaton to Nightfox on Sat Jul 15 2023 07:41 pm

Whoever got dosemu2 working, can you please send me the
following:

I put together a zip file of what I have:
http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com:81/synchronet_stuff/dosemu.zip

Is there an advantage to using this?

As opposed to what?

As opposed to his working system, I guess.
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