Jeroen Janssen wrote:
> Ok, any idea what the "first" OS will be that will need special drivers?
> (this way I can gather some information about that host OS & drivers).
Any OS migtht be run on an sufficiently compatible emulation.
Any OS should run faster having special drivers especially for
graphics
> Note that I'm working at Oce Technologies B.V. in a project that
> develops Windows (95/NT4/W2K) printerdrivers, so ( "unfortunately" :) )
> my preference would be to write windows guest OS specific drivers
You should think about drivers for the Windows95 OS. I would assume
it to be more likely to run 95 than NT in the Emulation.
For Linux hosted Plex86 it would be nice to have an Driver
connecting directly to the X-Display. Since you are an
Windows-Specialist this might be done with minimal programming
on the host-side. Assuming an fast Ethernet-Emulation (or
IP-networking) it might be done without any host-side programming.
Another topic might be the networking for the guest OS. Win4Lin
does forward winsock-Request directly to the Linux IP-Stack, there
is no Ethernet-Emulation involved. Doing so might be an option for
application servers.
Next you can think about supporting the native Filesystem. We
can access it via SMB-networking. But, an direct way should be
faster.
Elmar
