[ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [tkreuzer] 53399: [VMWINST] Fix amd64 build

[Bernd Blaauw]

Op 4-9-2011 17:10, Jérôme Gardou schreef:
> Le 23/08/2011 10:58, tkreuzer at svn.reactos.org a écrit :
> What about :
> [VMWINST] Get rid of this useless relic.
> I mean it's something we have to maintain, it was written for
> antediluvian vmware versions, and I see no reason to have such a thing.
> I may as well write an application to install specific ATI card drivers,
> or intel chipset drivers...

Well you got multiple options:
* ensure the VMware installer (MSI) can run properly so people can 
install their drivers. Makes VMWINST obsolete.
* ensure ReactOS can deal with a directory containing the bare VMware 
drivers (requiring 7zip to extract them from VMware 7 ISO).
* convert the Linux opensource VMware drivers into NT ones
* update this relic tool to finally (also) work with modern VMware ISO 
contents structure.

Nice and all that people can show off Quake2, Furmark etc in 
VirtualBox..now prove the same for other virtualisation products and 
real hardware graphics cards (Nvidia and AMD/ATI for starters, Intel 
graphics if you aim at business desktops).

Demonstrate equal progress in all used/supported platforms. Show VMWINST 
is an obsolete relic by proving VMware drivers can install on trunk 
ReactOS, including the added 3D support (OpenGL only I guess, but good 
enough for now).