Re: [Qemu-devel] Code Copy / New Linux boot code

[Derrik Pates <dpates@dsdk12.net>]

Michael Torrie wrote:
> Precisely.  We're not talking about emulation at all here.  In fact,
> what I was proposing is really outside the scope of qemu entirely, and
> could be implemented with a real windows box running on some remote
> machine.  All I was saying is that should such a driver system exist,
> then combining that with qemu and a real copy of Windows XP would allow
> a nice "rootless" environment where your real windows xp windows (MS
> Word, etc) could appear on your X11 desktop.  I've been after Win4Lin
> (www.netraverse.com) to implement something like this for years, but
> they also seem to be mystified as to what I'm talking about. 

I know exactly what you're talking about - like MacOS 9 apps on OS X, 
where the classic MacOS apps and OS X apps run in their own windows, 
rather than in a "virtual display". I've thought about doing this with 
Mac-on-Linux, but I'm not sufficiently familiar with the internals of 
QuickDraw and writing a MacOS display driver to make it work.

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Derrik Pates
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