Windows 3.11 as host on VPC2004

Has anyone got WFW 3.11 working as a host in VPC 2004? It worked fine under
5.2, of course. MS-DOS 6.22 installs fine, as do the DOS additions. The
installation of 3.11 also appears to complete successfully and when you
reboot DOS appears as normal. When you run win.exe, however, it goes belly
up and sits frozen at the c: prompt. Has support for 3.11 been removed?

"Simon Geary" <> wrote in message
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> Has anyone got WFW 3.11 working as a host in VPC 2004? It worked fine
under
> 5.2, of course. MS-DOS 6.22 installs fine, as do the DOS additions. The
> installation of 3.11 also appears to complete successfully and when you
> reboot DOS appears as normal. When you run win.exe, however, it goes belly
> up and sits frozen at the c: prompt. Has support for 3.11 been removed?
>
You mean as a guest surely?

Anyway, the problem seems to be the dos additions. I had the same trouble
until I completely removed all trace of the dos additions, and now WfW 3.11
works ok - but without any of the advantages from the additions package.

"Mark Weinreb" <mark@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> "Simon Geary" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > Has anyone got WFW 3.11 working as a host in VPC 2004? It worked fine
> under
> > 5.2, of course. MS-DOS 6.22 installs fine, as do the DOS additions. The
> > installation of 3.11 also appears to complete successfully and when you
> > reboot DOS appears as normal. When you run win.exe, however, it goes
belly
> > up and sits frozen at the c: prompt. Has support for 3.11 been removed?
> >
> You mean as a guest surely?
>
> Anyway, the problem seems to be the dos additions. I had the same trouble
> until I completely removed all trace of the dos additions, and now WfW
3.11
> works ok - but without any of the advantages from the additions package.
>
>

Cool, thanks for the tip.

Some of the functionality within the old DOS Additions broke because of
changes we made for security reasons. The old DOS Additions continue to work
fine in real mode, but when they're running with EMM386, a DOS Extender,
Windows 3.1 or other protected-mode environments, they do not work as
expected.

- Eric

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Eric Traut
Director of VM Technologies
Microsoft Corp.

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"Simon Geary" <> wrote in message
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> "Mark Weinreb" <mark@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> >
> > "Simon Geary" <> wrote in message
> > news:...
> > > Has anyone got WFW 3.11 working as a host in VPC 2004? It worked fine
> > under
> > > 5.2, of course. MS-DOS 6.22 installs fine, as do the DOS additions.
The
> > > installation of 3.11 also appears to complete successfully and when
you
> > > reboot DOS appears as normal. When you run win.exe, however, it goes
> belly
> > > up and sits frozen at the c: prompt. Has support for 3.11 been
removed?
> > >
> > You mean as a guest surely?
> >
> > Anyway, the problem seems to be the dos additions. I had the same
trouble
> > until I completely removed all trace of the dos additions, and now WfW
> 3.11
> > works ok - but without any of the advantages from the additions package.
> >
> >
>
> Cool, thanks for the tip.
>
>