VDD/VXD in Wine?

[Johan Gill]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Fabian Cenedese wrote:

> Hi
>
> We have an application that communicates with some hardware. For this
> we have virtual device drivers that map some memory. There is also a
> PCI-Interface dll. Is this possible to work in wine? I recently read that wine
> is supposed to run most Windows apps but not drivers. We intended to
> port our application to Linux with the help of wine but now I'm not sure if
> we can succeed at all. If it's not possible with the Windows drivers is there
> a way if we make a native Linux kernel module?
> I'm still at the very beginning of Wine. The app loads but the toolbar is not
> painted and it crashes as soon as I try to open a file. Well, long way to go...
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Fabi

VxDs are not supported, that's right. They would need to run in kernel
mode to do their work.

/Johan Gill, johane at lysator.liu.se