VDD/VXD in Wine?

[Andreas Mohr]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:24:41AM -0300, List vmn wrote:
> Fabian,
> 
> You are correct, there is no VXD support in wine.
> VXDs access the CPU in a manner that is a privilege of the kernel.
> What you can do that may help you save some of your windows code is
> to implement the functionality that VXDs support with a kernel module or
> a linux shared object.
> Then you can write a winelib dll that has wrapper functions for the so that 
> implement the VXD API.
> The resulting program will be a winelib program.
> It will be able to run your windows code and linux code at the same time 
> and make them interoperate.
Possible, but not the best solution IMHO.
Just split the windows hardware access DLL into a Windows/Linux combo.
That way you just exchange one DLL, and that's it.
(well, and also Windows VxD / Linux kernel driver, of course !)

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