* On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Saulius Krasuckas <[email protected]> wrote: > > * On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Stefan Dösinger wrote: > >> > >> There's protected mode 32 bit, protected mode 16 bit, but no vm86 16 > >> bit. So no real mode apps in Wine. We'd need to integrate a CPU > >> emulator or JIT compiler into Wine to get this working. > > > > DOSBox does something like this already. I lack ideas about to what > > extent DOSBox could be integrated, but at least its CPU emulator could > > do. Or maybe DOSBox could even be bridged/integrated and do all the > > DOS stuff here? > > > > Then IIRC there were discussions in the past about integrating Qemu into > > Wine. Some folks at Darwine have achieved this to some degree: [1] > > AFAIK we can't integrate with DOSBox, Dosemu or FreeDOS for the same > reason we can't integrate with Samba: their GPL licence.
I am profane at licensing, but does GPL restrict even usage of binary (linking, execution), or only a compilation of source code? > in my experience QEMU is very slow when it does full emulation. Should not be slower that eg. BOCHS. S.
