On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Alexandre Julliard<julliard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Austin English <austinenglish@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:35 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> cnelson@pcda5561:~/Desktop$ wine plsqldev715.exe >>>>> wine: Cannot start DOS application "E:\\home\\cnelson\\Desktop\\plsqldev715.exe" >>>>> because vm86 mode is not supported on this platform. >>>>> cnelson@pcda5561:~/Desktop$ >>>> >>>> You're trying to run a 16-bit application on a 64-bit OS. Your kernel >>>> lacks vm86 support. Try on a 32-bit OS. >>>> >>> >>> Or dosbox >> >> Dosbox only supports dos applications, not win16 applications. > > Win16 applications don't need vm86, and work just fine on 64-bit. Thanks for the clarification. I know on Windows that isn't the case. Is it DOS apps then that require vm86? -- -Austin
