This file is a list (incomplete) of Operating Systems which might be interesting to test in a plex86 VM. The virtualization is not complete enough yet to run most of them, but as it progresses, we should aim to run as many as possible. If you have other OS suggestions, please post them to the list. Submit a URL whenever possible. A URL for a boot floppy image is also helpful, as it can be quickly tested. This file will be useful for those who want to be plex86 testers. -Kevin Guest OS Version Status ===================================================================== ReactOS nt --------------------------------------------------------------------- QNX Demo v4 OK from demo floppy --------------------------------------------------------------------- MSDOS 6.22 OK from boot floppy MSDOS 7 (from Win boot disk) OK from boot floppy --------------------------------------------------------------------- WindowsNT 4.0 Build 1381 SP1 OK from bochs disk image Windows95 OK from bochs disk image Windows other nt --------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeDOS Beta 4 OK --------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux Pragma Linux 2.0.33 OK from boot floppy Debian Linux 2.2.17 OK from rescue floppy Tom's Root-Boot BF *** --------------------------------------------------------------------- OS/2 nt --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ecos nt --------------------------------------------------------------------- RTEMS nt --------------------------------------------------------------------- Minix nt --------------------------------------------------------------------- unOS nt --------------------------------------------------------------------- PicoBSD OK from boot floppy --------------------------------------------------------------------- NetBSD 1.5 OK (Frank van der Linden) --------------------------------------------------------------------- DR-DOS 7.02 OK (Keith Frost) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: BF = Boot Floppy nt = Not Tested OK = works fine ReactOS: http://www.reactos.com/ QNX: http://get.qnx.com/ http://www.qnx.com/ http://www.qnx.com/demodisk/ MSDOS: http://www.microsoft.com/ Windows: http://www.microsoft.com/ FreeDOS: http://www.freedos.org/ Linux: Tom's Root Boot: http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html Pragma Linux: ftp://ftp.plex86.org/guestOS/1.44_pragma386 I don't what the official URL is. I have an old boot floppy, so I uploaded it. OS/2: http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/os_2inst/ibmcorpo/index.htm Ecos: http://www.redhat.com/embedded/technologies/ecos/ RTEMS: ftp://ftp.oarcorp.com/pub/rtems/betas/rtems-4.5.0-beta/contrib/pc386_grub_image/ Minix: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html BeOS: http://www.be.com/ http://free.be.com/ AROS - Amiga Research OS (see http://www.aros.org/) Prebuilt kernel: ftp://ftp.aros.org/pub/aros/snapshots/AROS-ibmpc-bin-<date>tgz To use it with VMWare, Bochs, Plex86, et al. you have to pad the image file with NULLs (I do this via "dd if=/dev/zero of=pad bs=missingbytes count=1" and then "cat kernel pad > disk" to have a 1440k image) If you are interested in the assembler that is used, download the source archive and look in AROS/config/i386-native/ unOS: http://www.miray.de/products/demo.html PicoBSD: http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html NetBSD: http://www.netbsd.org/