Virtual Machines

Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and provide functionality of a physical computer. Their implementations may involve specialized hardware, software, or a combination. A virtual machine is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest). A virtual machine typically enables the host system to run software or use peripheral devices designed for the guest system.

PTSource MiniVM

Current version 7 Final for Windows

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PTSource MiniVM is a general purpose virtual machine for Windows x86 and x64. PTSource MiniVM is designed to run cointained virtual machine legacy operating systems in the latest Windows versions. MiniVM provides advanced features such as support for multiuser applications, printing to PDF printers, tighter integration with Windows, enhanced keyboard, mouse and display support, transparent web and network access, minimal and compact code and real hardware emulation.

System requirements
Windows 8.1, 10 or 11 platforms arch x86 or x64.

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PTSource MiniVM Emulated Hardware

• Intel Pentium MMX Processor at 580 MHz
• 64Mb SDRAM (default) 128Mb SDRAM (using the --extramem switch)
• S3 ViRGE graphics chipset
• Serial Mouse
• Sound Blaster 16 Sound Card
• Ne2000 Network Card
• 3 Hard Drives (RAW Disk Image format)
• 1 CDROM Drive (ISO Files)
• 2 2.88 Mb Floppy Drives (IMG, IMA, FDI Files)

Features

• PTSource MiniVMDOS included
• Network support and multiuser environment
• Printing text to Windows printers
• Transparent web and network access
• Does NOT need BIOS virtualization in the host machine
• PTSource Imager hard drive image creator included
• PTSource Image Converter hard drive image converter included
• PTSource ISO Creator ISO file creator included
• PTSource Printer manager for host included
• PTSource Image Mounter in host system included
• PTSource Rawrite floppy boot images included

Tested Operating Systems

• CP/M-86 1.1
• MS-DOS 6.22
• DR-DOS 6.0
• DR-DOS 7.0.1
• DR-DOS 7.0.2
• DR-DOS 7.0.3
• DR-DOS 8.0
• IBM PC-DOS 6.1.0
• IBM PC-DOS 6.3.0
• IBM PC-DOS 7.0
• PTS-DOS 2000
• PTS-DOS 32
• ROM-DOS 7.10
• Real/32 DOS 7.94
• Windows 3.1
• Windows 3.11
• Windows for Workgroups 3.11
• Windows NT 3.51 Workstation
• Windows 95
• Windows 98 SE (with 98Lite)
• Windows NT 4 Workstation SP3
• Windows NT 4 Server SP3
• Windows NT 4 Enterprise Server SP3
• BackOffice Server 4.0
• OS/2 Warp 4
• BeOS 5 Personal Edition
• Coherent Unix 4.2.10
• BasicLinux 3.50
• Slackware 3.5
• Slackware 4.0
• Slackware 7.1
• Slackware 8.0
• Slackware 9.0
• FreeBSD 3.1
• Red Hat Linux 5.2
• Red Hat Linux 6.0
• Red Hat Linux 6.1
• Red Hat Linux 8.0
• Corel Linux 1.2
• Linux Mandrake 5.3
• Linux Mandrake 6.1
• Linux Mandrake 8.0
• Debian 5.0
• Feather Linux 0.7.5
• SuSE Linux 6.3
• SuSE Linux 7.0 Personal
• SuSE Linux 7.0 Professional
• Puppy Linux 3.01 Retro
• United Linux 1.0
• Turbo Linux 6.0.2
• SvarDOS 20250427

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