> I hope this source code can allow me to boot XP natively on my main laptop, so I don't have to carry around another computer just for compatibility.
In my experience, Windows XP runs fine on relatively modern hardware. The biggest offender is generally storage drivers (AHCI). You can download a driver and re-pack the installer with it.
Note that I haven't tried this in a long time, it might not be practical anymore. But with today's HW-assisted virtualization, you could just boot it in qemu or any other accelerated virtual machine, and you couldn't tell the difference.
'In my experience, Windows XP runs fine on relatively modern hardware.'
How modern? And what hardware models? Was the newer hardware Win 7 compatible or later?
I wish you'd be more specific and tell us how as it's never worked for me even after mucking about with different PC hardware and various different AHCI and other drivers.
I wouldn't hold my breath with ReactOS. It seems to me there's so few developing it that it'll never reach critical mass. Shame really, as alternative non-MS O/S that runs x86/64 Win APIs would be useful.
In my experience, Windows XP runs fine on relatively modern hardware. The biggest offender is generally storage drivers (AHCI). You can download a driver and re-pack the installer with it.
Note that I haven't tried this in a long time, it might not be practical anymore. But with today's HW-assisted virtualization, you could just boot it in qemu or any other accelerated virtual machine, and you couldn't tell the difference.