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 it a day or two, I think this is a really cool idea. The proposal is that we adapt our own ntoskrnl.exe and hal.dll to run correctly in user mode, just like user mode linux does, and use them to run the rest of a native Windows XP system. In other words, it replaces Win4Lin with free software, and it would be compatible with the current Windows OSes. Much investigating remains to be done, of course - I can't really even guess at the level of difficulty or time required at this point - but it is worth pursuing in my opinion.
I think its do-able. I am planning on discussing this with Mike and Codeweavers guys more after I return from Vacation on the 8th. 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?
Thanks Steven
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