- So why did they move VXD's to dos?
Dunno.
- Do native VXD's in wine load for every windows
version defined?
I think so, yes.
- Do you mean a messy rewrite or just compilling with
the winelib?
Basically a total rewrite. VxDs need to run in ring zero (kernel mode), and obviously the Linux kernel is pretty different to the windows kernel.
- Since it's kind of a driver I get wine will never
support real ones, not in the near future, right?
Probably not. I'm sure somebody reasonably smart with a lot of motivation could do it though.
- Was supporting real windows drivers ever came up? I
know that if something like this would of been done it wouldn't be it wine but I wander, is there such a project?
It has been raised in the past yes, especially as some apps need VxDs to run properly, but there is no easy solution to using them.
thanks -mike