The state of ReactOS svn (Part 1)

It has been years since I last tried ReactOS. For those who aren’t familiar with ReactOS, it is an open source project aimed at writing and operating system from scratch that is compatible with Microsoft Windows drivers and software. I went ahead and downloaded a svn build from here . I extracted the tarball using p7zip and placed the boot installer iso on my desktop. I already had qemu installed so I opened a terminal and ran:

qemu-img create  hd.img 5G

qemu -m 384 -boot d -hdd hd.img -cdrom bootcd-31182-rel.iso

This created a 5GB disk image and launched the React OS installer.