Re: [ros-dev] Installing and running ReactOS on modern hardware

[Thomas Mueller]

from "David Quintana (gigaherz)" <gigaherz(a)gmail.com>om>:

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>   This is the Gmail web client, I have no control over
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>   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