Driver wrapper

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A driver wrapper is software that functions as an adapter between an operating system and a driver, such as a device driver, that was not designed for that operating system. It can enable the operating system to use technologies for which no native implementation exists.

[edit] Windows driver wrappers for Linux

Several open source software projects allow using Microsoft Windows drivers under another operating system, such as Linux.

Examples include network drivers for wireless cards (such as NdisWrapper for Linux or Project Evil for FreeBSD) and the NTFS file system (see Captive NTFS).

The common thread among these examples is the use of wrapper technology, which allows execution of the drivers in a foreign environment.