{"id":647,"date":"2022-06-11T10:48:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T14:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgreene.org\/?p=647"},"modified":"2022-06-11T10:48:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T14:48:15","slug":"reactos-as-a-32bit-open-watcom-dev-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgreene.org\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"ReactOS as a 32bit Open Watcom Dev Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was having problems with the old Windows XP VM I use to compile Open Watcom (OW) boot projects. This VM is an image of my original XP Desktop install that I have IDA and a lot of unused junk, so I decided to build a barebones VM for just using OW compiling. Initially, I was going to use a Windows 7 install as a lightweight single purpose solution; however, that turned out to be a real pain. Even using a real DVD on Windows 7 seemed to be more trouble than it was worth, so I looked for another option. I finally settled on setting up and giving a ReactOS <\/a>VM. <\/p>\n\n\n

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ReactOS System About<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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VirtualBox ReactOS VM<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was incredibly surprised that this worked very well. The VM is lightweight, and I have not had many issues of concern. The VM does not seem to restore correctly from a VirtualBox save, but loading is so fast it really does not matter. My work setup for this project is to code in Visual Studio Code<\/a> for Linux with the source on a Synology NAS share. The share is mounted (systemd automount) in my home directory. The ReactOS<\/a> VM shares this directory for access to the source and the VM mounts a FAT16 vdi which is my test image that gets booted using Bochs<\/a> emulator running from a bash shell on my Linux system.<\/p>\n\n\n

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VS Code About GUI<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The workflow is to code in VS Code (on Linux), compile and copy the binary to the FAT16 vdi image using the ReactOS<\/a> VM, and run the test system using Bochs<\/a> (Linux) using its internal debugger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VSCode and ReactOS VM on Gentoo Desktop<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was having problems with the old Windows XP VM I use to compile Open Watcom (OW) boot projects. 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