NT 4.0 is a great OS, I love the terminal server edition myself. I know it can be a bit daunting setting this stuff up, but once its working its great!

Also keep in mind that bochs interprets 80386 instructions while Qemu does dynamic translation making it much faster…

I haven’t really gotten that far.

I had read your posts about setting up a board on OS/2 with SIO/vmodem, it all sounded pretty ideal but I’ve never used OS/2 so the experience and nostalgia weren’t there for me.

I ended up using NT4 for the modest resource requirements (it’s around win95 era except stable..), bochs is really rough around the edges so it’s running a 500MB flat image file for the hard drive.

Renegade is the BBS software (purely for nostalgia, I’m fairly sure it’s terrible software) and net2bbs/netfoss for the telnet solution.

Glad you got it working! what is your setup? what kind of door? networks? lol

Yeah it’s a cheap VPS and I don’t know if I could screw around with modules to get NAT set up.

I found the solution tho! I decided to look at the slirp documentation rather than bochs, and one of the first things I read was that slirp firewalls the “guest”, which explains why I wasn’t able to communicate with the VM from outside.

HOWEVER, I was able to put this single line in ~/.slirprc :

redir tcp 5023 to 23

That’s all it needs for port 5023 of the VPS to be redirected to the telnet port of the VM. Easy 🙂

Can you put a ‘secondary’ ip address on the loopback adapter? or install a second one (with a non 127.0.0.1 address)..? If you can, then you just NAT it from within the VM… Sadly the cheaper hosting stuff won’t let you do anything that ‘creative’, esp altering routing ….

I launch my qemu under screen, and use cpulimit to make sure it never runs at 100% CPU …