26 Mar
2014
26 Mar
'14
8:31 a.m.
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 <mueller6723(a)twc.com> wrote:
from "David Quintana (gigaherz)"
<gigaherz(a)gmail.com>om>:
[-- 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
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