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Welcome to the dosemu2 wiki!

dosemu2 is an emulator for running DOS programs under linux. It can also serve as a VM to boot various DOSes.

Installing

dosemu2 can be installed by either building from source or installing binary packages.

• Building from source
• Installing binary packages for Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu and Debian-based Linux distributions

Running

README.md contains a quick start guide for running dosemu2. Additional information, including a list of command-line options, can be found by running any of the following commands after installation:

dosemu --help

man dosemu

man dosemu.bin

Configuration

README.md contains instructions for configuring dosemu2.

The pages below describe optional configuration steps that may be required for certain use cases.

• Install third-party DOSes
• MIDI setup
• Known tweaks needed to run programs under dosemu2
• Running Windows-3.1 under DOSEMU

Tutorials and Guides

This section contains in-depth guides and tutorials using dosemu2.

• Setup guide for advanced users and ambitious beginners (using Ubuntu)

Support

• Report a bug
• Discussion forum
• Mailing list

Related projects

• fdpp A 64-bit DOS core, based on a FreeDOS kernel ported to modern C++.
• comcom32 32-bit command.com
• All dosemu2 repositories