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ale5000
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Virtual PC 2007?

Post by ale5000 »

When ReactOS will be compatible with Virtual PC 2007?
I have tried also to install it selecting VGA but it don't start.
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Post by Z98 »

Try VESA.

As for whether we would ever modify ROS specifically to work on VPC, highly unlikely.
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Post by GreatLord »

if u read VitualPC are only desgin to run few windows os,
that is what ms website say. with nicer word about VPC
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Post by ale5000 »

You can safely ignore what microsoft say.

Previous version of ReacOS work in VGA mode but not in VESA mode, the latest version doesn't work in both modes.

Can be made a video driver for Virtual PC?
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Post by GreatLord »

our vga driver is broken at moment thanks to tne new ntoskrnl + pnp stuff, The vesa driver will not be modify to work on vpc, for vpc report broken vbe frimware, as long that bug exists in vpc, our vbe drv will not work.
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Post by ale5000 »

But can be made a specific driver for VirtualPC (maybe in a separate download) installable manually after the end of the setup of ReactOS? (when vga will start working again)
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Post by GreatLord »

no, u for wait until some got time fixing vga driver at moment all foucs are on the win32k/gdi32/user32 we are around 3-4 devlopers on it now. trying fixing all bugs. and implement all api there
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Post by Radhad »

So while you work on win32k etc., will it improve the performance of the Desktop GUI? Or is a rewrite of the GUI planned in future?
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There already exists a rewritten shell, but it depends on a lot of incomplete shell APIs.
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Post by Mrkaras »

you'd be better off switching to vmware server. much beter reactos compatability. you could also try the reactos testing enviroment.

MS VPC has never had very good compatability with reactos and probably won't for a while yet.
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Post by GreatLord »

The top two leading vitualzing on the market is VMWARE and QEMU

the 4 top list is
Vmware
qemu
a special version of qemu that is build into linux core
xen

they are the best on the market

RedHat are using Vmware server in linux and sell it with their server
and they have a sheaper verison with qemu as well
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Post by vins »

I tried the last version of VirtualBox with ReactOS. It runs faster than Qemu+Kqemu, at least on my PC. The network adapter is detected and installed automatically and everything works ok.

Virtual PC runs too slow for me.
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