Craig Setera wrote:
>
> I've been lurking about on the list for a bit now and I'm very intrigued
> with the freemware project. It appears that most of you must be
> primarily running Linux. Although I do run Linux from time to time,
> Windows does tend to be my primary OS. It appears that NT is capable of
> running freemware, as VMWare can be hosted on NT. What about Win9x? Is
> it even possible to do virtualization on top of these OS's? Is anyone
> working on a Win32 port of freemware? Even though I find this very
> interesting, I'm not certain that I have the low-level knowledge to
> handle a port to Win32. Any pointers or further information would be
> helpful.
I'm not a Win32 maven myself, but I don't know of any reason
FreeMWare won't be portable to Win9x. There are only a few
services we need to get from the kernel, then we switch over
to our own environment.
Anybody else wan't to chime in here? As far as I know, it
will be more a matter of if someone is willing to do a
Win9x port. People have expressed interest so far in a WinNT
port, *BSD, BeOS, Linux of course, OS/2, and some development
kernels too. Oh, and someone mentioned Solaris/x86 as well.
Note for now, we need more time on Linux-only, to make things
a little simpler up front.
You are appointed head person-in-charge of getting people interested
in a Win9x port. :^)
-Kevin
