From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1AxYS1-0002aq-5j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:26:17 -0500 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1AxYRO-0001Zg-52 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:26:10 -0500 Received: from [209.123.232.253] (helo=zero.voxel.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AxYRN-0001Za-Vp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:25:38 -0500 Received: from dsdk12.net (unknown [24.195.230.60]) by zero.voxel.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E44267CE3 for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:25:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <404258AA.3020009@dsdk12.net> Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:24:58 -0500 From: Derrik Pates MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Code Copy / New Linux boot code References: <403009C2.8000505@free.fr> <001b01c3f427$38253410$6407a8c0@personal> <20040215194345.3c1b6fa8.general@eepatents.com> <1076916457.27070.5.camel@enterprise.local.lan> <20040216133357.A10722@bbland> <1076954534.27070.11.camel@enterprise.local.lan> <20040216181028.GB1411@best.ms.philips.com> <1076963172.27070.20.camel@enterprise.local.lan> In-Reply-To: <1076963172.27070.20.camel@enterprise.local.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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. -- Derrik Pates dpates@dsdk12.net