I guess I'll use Plain text mode, just for you ;P (Being in 2014, it's a wonder anyone still uses an email client that doesn't decode HTML by default, and requires you to look at the plain text as an attachment, but I'm open-minded)
I don't have any strict numbers regarding the VM size. If I recall correctly, the testbox VMs have 2GB HDDs and 512MB of RAM. ReactOS could boot with less, but since the memory manager isn't the most reliable, it's best if you have enough RAM in it so that it doesn't have to do much paging. My own VM has two HDDs, one 4GB, for the current installation, and one 20GB, for downloaded files and such. Both are dynamically expanding virtual disk images, so they are not actually that large on disk. I usually only reinstall the OS by formatting the main HDD, and try to leave the other disk intact, although in a few cases, I have had to repair/format the 20GB disk because it had been corrupted. This means I wouldn't trust it not to mess with a real disk, if you were thinking of mapping a partition to the VM. As I said, SOME drivers do work, others do not. Look at this page, and its subpages: https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Supported_Hardware It has a list of supported hardware devices, which mostly means supported DRIVERS for hardware devices. I do not believe ReactOS is prepared for the situation of booting into a ramdisk, when the source of the ramdisk is an HDD. That is largely outside of my area of experience, though, so I can't really help much. (If anyone with more knowledge wants to take over the conversation...) On 26 March 2014 04:34, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > from "David Quintana (gigaherz)" <gigah...@gmail.com>: > >> [-- Attachment #1 --] >> [-- Type: multipart/alternative, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 9.5K --] >> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1137e986d9c67404f56eb6c5 > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > >> This is the Gmail web client, I have no control over MIME encodings, other >> than choosing if I want the text as HTML or just plain text. > >> Some drivers do work, and it is one of the goals of the project, to be able >> to use drivers written for winxp/2003 (or whichever version of windows >> reactos is targetting, which is 2003sp1 at the moment). I personally use >> VMware, and we have had success using many of the drivers from the VMware >> Tools CDROM, including SVGA, Mouse, and I think also Network. > >> Some people have lately shown an interest in making ReactOS bootable >> through PXE, sending a ramdisk image over the network, but I don't think >> the process is usable quite yet (someone correct me if I'm wrong). > > I think you could choose plain text instead of HTML in Gmail? Are there any > Internet links or special effects in your messages that require HTML? > > A lot has happened with computer hardware since 2003, and winxp/2003sp1 won't > support anything newer, like GPT and USB 3.0, among other things. > > But Windows drivers for individual devices would be provided by the > manufacturer on CD or DVD in the package. > > If ReactOS might be booted from a ramdisk image, could I use an image I > already have on disk with syslinux, grub2 or grub4dos? That would be simpler > than PXE. > > Can Windows drivers provided by the device manufacturer be used by ReactOS > when running under VMware, QEMU or Virtualbox? > > How big a file is recommended for installing ReactOS under VMware, QEMU or > Virtualbox? > > Tom > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
