http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5240 It is based on WINE and ReactOS . The project is sponsored by a chinese company.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:26 AM, bussuser <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5240 > > It is based on WINE and ReactOS .It's not a wine replacement; it uses wine. Better description at http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5240 It looks like they added hooks to the linux kernel to accept windows nt syscalls. Maybe they even allow using the system's normal shared library loader instead of Wine's special one. This is something I've often wanted to do, but it was way lower priority than getting wine working. I haven't looked at their project at all, no idea if it was done well. - Dan
> > However, it's a great, great project IMO. It was about time something > > like that should've been made. Redirecting calls is simply acting as a > > proxy, instead of emulating. > > Wine is not an emulator. ?No emulation is going on anyway. > > We would, I think, like to move wineserver into the kernel > sometime. ?It's been discussed before. ?Linus is not > opposed to having native support for win32 system calls. > A fellow at Redhat wrote a kernel module for wine a number > of years ago, but it just wasn't time yet. > > For a related BSD thingy, see > http://www.kernel-traffic.org/wine/wn20010313_87.html#1 > That project was still going as of 2006, I think, but didn't > get terribly far.OK. Has anyone actually tried this thing? Patching kernels and building modules is no big thing but patching and compiling wine, being tied to an older version or constantly upgrading and redoing this might be a bit too much.
MS windows device drivers working on linux would be very very tempting. I hope they implemente the WDM device driver framework this year.
Dan Kegel wrote:> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:26 AM, bussuser <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote: > > > http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5240 > > > > It is based on WINE and ReactOS . > > > > It's not a wine replacement; it uses wine. > Better description at > http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5240 > > It looks like they added hooks to the linux kernel > to accept windows nt syscalls. Maybe they even allow using the > system's normal shared library loader instead of Wine's > special one. This is something > I've often wanted to do, but it was way lower priority > than getting wine working. I haven't looked at their > project at all, no idea if it was done well. > - DanThe linux unified kernel uses wine and reactos's codes, but it's technique is different from wine. Just like KVM, it uses a lot of XEN's codes, but the technique of kvm is different from XEN.