On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:50:15PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Hmm... I wonder how much would be required to emulate just the
Windows system calls (used by normal applications)? I.e. the same
way
qemu-user emulates the Linux and BSD system calls used by normal
apps.
WINE does this, of course, but WINE is much bigger than that - it
replaces all the Windows userspace libraries. That's much bigger
than
just kernel behaviour. I wonder how big the part needed just for
Windows system calls would be.
Hmm, at some point in the future, I suppose it's possible that there
could be a demand for something like FX!32 (which let you run i386
apps
on NT for DEC Alpha)... x86 seems to be here to stay, though...
For most users, I suppose qemu+wine would (in theory) be want they
want,
although perhaps it'd be possible to run some code (e.g. wineserver?)
directly on the host CPU, without any translation.