VXDs under linux?

Chris antispam at stargate.net
Thu Mar 15 14:47:26 CST 2001


On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:05:06 GMT, g.patel at wanadoo.fr wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:37:14 GMT, antispam at stargate.net (Chris) wrote:
>
>>In order to write a program like wine, you must have a good knowledge
>>of windows and how it works.  Would it be possible to write something
>>that would tell Linux how to understand VXDs or WDMs, or write a
>>kernel module that can use them?  (I assume there is a reason it
>>hasn't been done yet, but I don't have enough understanding to know
>>why).
>
>Try Google, I think it's posted every month or so.
>Or it must be in the Faq.
>
>Gerard

It doesn't seem to answer the question... what I was asking about is a
program that would let you use windows drivers under linux, so that
linux programs/the kernel could use currently unsupported hardware.  I
would like to know where to get it if it exists, or why it couldn't be
written.

Chris



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