UML Merged Into 2.5.34 , VxD's

Ilja Kamps ikarus at ikarus.ath.cx
Sat Sep 14 09:22:55 CDT 2002


On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:43:08PM -0400, Thomas Wickline wrote:
> I see UML made it into the 2.5.34 kernel
> 
> http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/
> 
> From what I get  VxD drivers try to get hold of your pci bus and a ton 
> of other stuff .
> Could this be the start to a fix down the road when it comes to .vxd 
> support ?
> Will this help when it comes to a Wine Kernel Module ?

Well, it is a bit useless to wine as it is basicly doing the same as wine
(loading a kernel with its own memory managment and everything in Linux
without PC virtualization), and the idea of a wine kernel module is still
insane imho, I mean there wouldn't be any real advantagem, unless you go
the way ReactOS took.
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