Although I am not a driver expert I would like to work on the videodriver
project.
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From: "Kevin Lawton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> - Special guest OS specific drivers. (video/disk/network) This might
> be a good time to get some of these subprojects fired up.
I know that while Xfree86 was ported to cygwin that for a while they used a
hacked version of the VNC Xserver and client.
Thay ran a version VNC in cygwin ( client OS) (which is available for many
os-es) which communicated with VNC in the host OS without using the network
layer. I don't remember what the performance was of all this.
Is this maybe an idea to use for plex86?
Possibly a similar trick could be used for a diskdriver. Hack a client
driver which communicates with a hacked nfs server or samba server.
The alternative would be a "normal" videodriver for all guest OSes. For
linux and freeBSD this shouldn't be a problem (lot's of information about
how to write a driver) but I don't have a clue where to start for a windows
videodriver. Is there any example code or information out there?
This driver then should communicate with a display on the host. I think that
the use of DRI (for *nix) and directX (for windows) would be the fastest
solution. This is also what vmware uses.
Greetings,
Martin
