[Wine] vm86 mode is not supported

Darragh Bailey felix at compsoc.nuigalway.ie
Wed Jun 10 18:37:09 CDT 2009


On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 03:27:37PM -0500, hbar wrote:
> fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
> wine: configuration in '/home/cnelson/.wine' has been updated.
> wine: Cannot start DOS application "E:\\home\\cnelson\\Desktop\\plsqldev715.exe"
>       because vm86 mode is not supported on this platform.
> 

That last line is the problem, app may be windows 32bit, but the
installer is a DOS executable which requires vm86 mode to be present 
in the kernel.

-- 
Darragh

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