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I havent posted in about a year. But, I have found an issue that I cannot find answered on google or in documentation.
I want to run Cooperative Linux (coLinux) under Xubuntu 6.10. I found the autobuild colinux-20050301.src.tar.gz as suggested on the coLinux wiki. I just need better documentation on how to build, install, and run coLinux on Linux.
Does anyone have an idea how to do this or where I can find out how to do this?
Hmm... not sure what colinux is, but I spotted the following lines in my kernel's .config file that seem to refer to co-operation / pre-emption of the kernel:
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set
CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y
# CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set
I found that setting CONFIG_PREEMPT and compiling and testing the kernel results in significant stutter and IO lag on my setup. Pre-empt voluntary (as indicated above) seems to be the best choice. Maybe all you need to do is recompile your kernel and play with these settings?
Second: you should try to run CoLinux on top of Debian as documented there before experimenting variants.
Third: you should tell more about what you did and where you failed or were stopped because of lacking documentation, your question is too vague and wide (build, install and run).
I was going to do this to see if I could actually pull it off. I want to be able to run coLinux just like it is run in Windows XP. I know for a fact that it will run faster than VMware will. I ran it on a box with 256MB RAM. I know it says the X server apps will be slower than a native install, which is a given. The whole point of this is to get a faster running virtual machine.
So that leads to what I posted previously. I know coLinux has been successfully installed and used on Linux. (Like you said Debian but 3.0) I am going to run it on Debian 4.0 and I just wanted to see what other people thought about it and find out for myself if it can be done. Specifically my questions are:
Will I have to compile the daemon from source?
How do I build it?-- It doesn't say the specifics of the build process.
Are there modules I will need to run coLinux with a 2.6.18 kernel?
Finally, will the networking be setup similar to the setup for windows?
I'm mainly just trying to collect information/opinions/thoughts from other Linux users. I'm not trying to get someone to do this for me,thats all.
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