Subj : Re: Retro virtualization platform?
To   : acn
From : Otto Reverse
Date : Sun Dec 26 2021 09:57:27

 ac> So my question is: Does anybody else use a 'hosted environment' for  
 ac> retro PC OSes?

Not really. But when I do the default choice is VirtualBox. for VM's in general I use KVM/qemu with Virt-Manager as the front end. But that type of virtual machine software generally speaking, doesn't emulate, it exposes the
real hardware instead. Whereas VirtualBox emulates the hardware and has some
options so that you can choose virtual hardware that is hopefully compatible
with whatever retro OS you are installing. It will also do virtual floppy drives using disk images as well.  VirtualBox is now owned by Oracle which as a company has rubbed many in th opensource world the wrong way, but the project is still at least opensource.

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