Re: win4lin-like porting of win98 to xen?

[Brian Wolfe <brianw@terrabox.com>]

Sounds like reactOS is the best hope then. 8-P Took a peek earlier and
liked what I saw about thier project.


On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 19:05, David Hopwood wrote:
> Mark A. Williamson wrote:
> 
> >>This approach would enable running Win4Lin. My idea would be, instead,
> >>to replace Win4Lin entirely.
> > 
> > That suggests using some kind of Xen-compatible kernel that can provide the 
> > DOS syscalls Win 9x needs to run.
> 
> This certainly won't work. Despite their reliance on DOS for some drivers,
> Win9x are not strictly layered on DOS; they are 32-bit protected-mode OSes
> that also rely heavily on direct hardware access.
> 
> Duplicating the approach used by Win4Lin is also not a feasible amount of
> work; it's almost a rewrite of the lower layers of Win9x.



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