Subj : Re: Linux and DOS Doors
To   : Alpha
From : Gryphon
Date : Mon Oct 19 2020 19:21:16

On 19 Oct 2020, Alpha inked down this thought...
 
 Al>  Gr> I just saw this message and I thought I'd chime in. I also wrote a HO
 Al>  Gr> to get dosdoors running in linux for Mystic. I don't run a BBS anymor
 Al>  Gr> but I'd like to make sure the info is still available for everybody.
 Al> 
 Al> Fantastic. Are there any watch-outs or limitaions with using QEMU on a
 Al> rPi? Other than performance/speed. I remember from the Enigma QEMU docs:
 Al> "Note however that there is an important and major caveat: Multiple
 Al> instances of a particular door/OS image should not be run at once!"

Yes, this is true. When you run an instance of QEMU, it is running in its own
virtual machine. If you run multiple instances, you'll be running multiple
isolated VM's. What this means is that any changes made in one instance will
not be seen in any concurrent running VMs. So its best to allow only one node
to run games at any one time.

Since so few callers call any one BBS at the same time, I considered this to
be only a slight issue since it will not be likely that multiple users would
be running games at the same time.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/03/29 (Windows/32)
 * Origin: .{* iNK!2 // bbs.inktwo.com \\ +o Smooth *}. (21:2/110)

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