On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 16:14, Steven Edwards wrote:
Hi Guys, --- Vizzini vizzini@plasmic.com wrote:
There was a very interesting question brought up on Saturday morning by one of the Wine guys (Mike perhaps?) regarding running ReactOS inside Linux, like Win4Lin. I was skeptical at first, but having slept on
I think its do-able. The real question is what more do you get by running ReactOS as Win4Lin rather than running Wineserver and WINE. Do we open up Win32k.sys for grahpics drivers like Captive has done for Filesystem drivers?
These are two different approaches. Captive can be very useful as-is (or nearly so) for running individual drivers. I've heard the safedisc driver might be a good next target here.
Unrelated to this might be the ability to run the native Windows OS, off of the Microsoft CD, but with a replaced kernel and HAL. Obviously that gets you a whole virtual machine, whereas Captive is focused on giving Linux extra capabilities.
-Vizzini