[ros-dev] DOS Subsystem.

[TwoTailedFox]

If NTVDM/VDM is neither a service, nor a Subsystem, then what precisely is it?

On 11/29/05, Alex Ionescu <ionucu at videotron.ca> wrote:
> Jerry wrote:
>
> > I know that.  I have a copy of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List
> > <http://www.ctyme.com/rbrown.htm> for the x86 platform. I also know
> > there are some DOS specific structures that I have to duplicate for
> > compatibility.  My problem is that I need to know how to program a NT
> > System Service.
> >
> >
> NTVDM/VDM is nor a service nor a subsytem. The only "hack" for it is in
> CreateProcess which launches ntvdm.exe with the application name
> suffixed (this code is already in trunk).
>
> The rest depends on:
> 1) ABIOS implementation in ntoskrnl
> 2) GUI calls in Win32K
> 3) NTVDM
> 4) VDM support in CSRSS
> 5) BIOS, io.sys, config.sys, etc files
>
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu
>
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