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?

Alk3

EDIT ======================
Here is the colinux home page:
http://www.colinux.org/
wiki
http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Thats what Cooperative Linux is...

Alk3

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?

Anyone else with a valid response, please?

Alk3

Ahh. Isn't colinux a method of running a linux distro on WINDOWS without a virtual PC?

If you are already running linux, then you are, um, already running linux...

First: You could have first pointed us to the right page: http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/CoLinux_on_Linux instead of the site main pages.

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.

Alk3