On Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 9:59:08 PM UTC-4, Drew White wrote: > On Thursday, 13 October 2016 23:26:31 UTC+11, gaikokuji...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at 10:12:48 PM UTC-4, Drew White wrote: > > > On Thursday, 13 October 2016 07:48:24 UTC+11, Gaiko Kyofusho wrote: > > > > I haven't seen much mention of ReactOS on the list but was thinking it > > > > *might* be worth trying a ReactOS AppVM as an alternative to a MS > > > > Windows AppVM but before I put myself through the frustration I thought > > > > I'd ask #1 The wisdom (or not) of the idea and #2 If its been tried > > > > already and doesn't work yet. > > > > > > > > Thx > > > > > > Qubes tools will NOT work. ROS is only 32 bit. It's still only 2003/XP > > > based. > > > I'm looking at doing something with the Qubes Tools to enable at least > > > copy/paste/qrexec. > > > > > > But at this time, it just won't have that option available if you use > > > ReactOS. > > > > Thats too bad, it would have been nice to use OSS to run win apps but > > anyway thanks for the answer! Saved me a bit of frustration trying to make > > it work. > > No problem, I just talked to the ReactOS people to find out. > during the chat, I may have worked out exactly how to get them working > though, as some of them have patches/cracks to get win7 stuff to work on ROS. > Not always well, but it does work. > > On the other hand, I may just write an interpreter for ReactOS to work just > like the tools normally would. It shouldn't be that hard since the code is > already available. But who knows. I will probably encounter many issues. But > I think that it will be beneficial in the end. > > At the moment there are other things I'm working on in Qubes to get it to > work right, you know, bridged networking and all. and I mean completely > bridged, not just forwarding. > So that's my first priority, then I'll get onto this other thing and see what > I can pull off, or if it is even possible. It should be possible, and > shouldn't take too long if it is possible. > > I'll let you know how it goes.
Totally understand the priorities part. But hey, its great to hear that it will/might be added in the future as I think ReactOS fits (ethos wise) fairly well with Qubes. Look'n forward to it. Thanks!! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/3081a644-6b19-4945-83d5-017d03e430ca%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
