coLinux: Linux for Windows

[zero0w]

What if you want to run GNU/Linux atop a Windows platform or try Linux without installing it on a partition itself, thereby preserving — and not even rebooting — your Windows system? Don't worry; VMware and Virtual PC are not your only choices. A new free software project called coLinux, or Cooperative Linux, lets you do nearly everything User-mode Linux does on Windows 2000 or XP:

 

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/...29/colinux.html

 

 

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[anacron]

Couldn't get it to run under my Win2K install. It seemed to die out when it was "creating monitor".

 

The Cooperative Linux Console opened, looked like it was booting, then went black. The message at the bottom was:

 

"Cooperative Linux Console started

Monitor0: Attached

Monitor0: Broken Pipe

Monitor0: Detached"

 

In the window that the daemon was running in:

"Cooperative Linux daemon

daemon: manager not opened

daemon: removing driver leftover

driver: stopping driver service

driver: removing driver service

daemon: installing kernel driver

daemon: loading configuration from default.colinux.xml

Expected '>' after '/' for element network, but got 'n'!

daemon: creating monitor

co_message_switch: setting callback rule for 7

co_message_switch: setting callback rule for 2

co_message_switch: setting callback rule for 6

co_message_switch: setting callback rule for 3

co_message_switch: setting callback rule for 0

co_message_switch: setting callback rule for 4

colinux: launching net daemons

daemon: launching daemon for conet0

executing: colinux-net-daemon

daemon: launching console

executing: colinux-console-fltk -a 0

Linux version 2.4.25-co-0.6.0 (karrde@callisto.yi.org) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Deb

n)) #57 Mon Mar 22 23:56:28 IST 2004

64MB LOWMEM available.

On node 0 totalpages: 16384

zone(0): 0 pages.

zone(1): 16384 pages.

zone(2): 0 pages.

Kernel command line: root=/dev/cobd0

Initializing CPU#0

Enabling TAP-Win32...

Error enabling TAP Win32vectors

CPU_HAS_TSC: 1Detected 432.031 MHz processor.

Console: colour CoCON 80x25

pipe client 0/6: Connecting to daemon...

pipe client 0/6: Connection established

Calibrating delay loop... daemon: module connected: console

co_message_switch: setting callback rule for 6

830.66 BogoMIPS

Memory: 62128k/65536k available (1126k kernel code, 0k reserved, 62k data, 52k

nit, 0k highmem)

Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)

Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)

Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)

Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)

CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K

CPU: L2 cache: 128K

CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05

Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.

Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.

POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX

Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4

Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039

Initializing RT netlink socket

Starting kswapd

Journalled Block Device driver loaded

devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)

devfs: boot_options: 0x0

pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured

RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize

loop: loaded (max 8 devices)

cobd: loaded (max 8 devices)

NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0

IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP

IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192)

NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.

VFS: Cannot open root device "cobd0" or 75:00

Please append a correct "root=" boot option

Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 75:00

daemon: monitor terminated, reason 3

switch_message: freed message a045a50 (2 to 4)

daemon: module disconnected: console

colinux: shutting down

daemon: daemon cleanup

daemon: removing kernel driver

driver: stopping driver service

driver: removing driver service"

 

Whaddaya think?

[Darkelve]

I tried it and got about the same (in fact, I think it was *exactly* the same)

 

WinXP here.

Edited May 1, 2004 by Darkelve

[Guest mr.tonmar]

Well, after trying to work with this for about 2 hours I had success. This is what I did to stop "error enabling TAP" on boot:

 

Readded the TAP driver as stated in link in the above post

Set the TAP to obtain addresses automatically

I renamed my new TAP to "TAP" but I do not know if this matters

I disabled the other two "fake" TAP's that did not work

Added the TAP (unplugged) to a network bridge with my real ethernet

Booted colinux-daemon

 

This is Win XP Pro SP1.

Good luck.

 

My /etc/network/interfaces is

auto lo eth0

iface eth0 inet static

address 192.168.1.60 (no other number on my network)

gateway 192.168.1.1 (this is my router GW)

netmask 255.255.255.0

 

My XML file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<colinux>

<block_device index="0" path="\DosDevices\g:\progra~1\colinux\Debian-3.0r0.ext3.1gb" enabled="true">

</block_device>

<block_device index="1" path="\DosDevices\c:\colinux\swap_device" enabled="true">

</block_device>

<bootparams>root=/dev/cobd0</bootparams>

<image path="vmlinux"></image>

<memory size="82"></memory>

<network index="1" type="tap" name="TAP"></network>

</colinux>

Edited May 16, 2004 by mr.tonmar

[sitor]

Sounds as an interesting project, but as long as the distro's you can run on it are still so limited, I think I will stick to VMWare (which is not at all perfect, but which does work for me). Will keep an eye on this one though.

 

Ciao,

 

Sitor