[coLinux-devel] [ colinux-Bugs-1521500 ] Colinux Crashes Vista during Installation

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Bugs item #1521500, was opened at 2006-07-12 15:41
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Colinux Crashes Vista during Installation

Initial Comment:
Hi,

I've tried to install colinux (0.6.4 and 0.7.1 hn16) 
on my new Windows Vista Beta2 Build 5456, however, 
failed with a BSOD during the installation.

If I select none of the networking components, the 
setup finishes correctly, but colinux crashes again 
when I try to start a new virtual machine.

It seems that Vista has changed some kernel driver 
architecture, which makes Colinux drivers give a BSOD 
on the system.

I really wish that this problem is easily solvable as 
I want to be able to run my beloved Kubuntu 6.06 
inside Vista.

Best regards,

Fastguy

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2006-08-21 08:48

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maybe this helps: as far as I know. the taü win32 driver 
colinux uses is the sameas or at least based on the tap 
win32 driver from the openvpn project. also people are 
reporting the same problem as mentioned above when addin a 
tap device with openvpn under vista. so maybe it could be 
useful to check with opnvpn at times to see whether they 
came up with a solution.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2006-07-16 06:59

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Hi Bill,

I agree with you in the sense that beta over beta is not a
very good approach.

However, I don't think it's a bug on Windows Side, as the
problem is  due to a new driver implementation model, which
has changed in Windows VISTA, and it appears that colinux
drivers are not compatible with it anymore. 

Of course, I don't know if Colinux developers find it worth
understanding and fixing. 

I read in some posts that same problem appears in TAP-Win32
(prevents OpenVPN from running) drivers.

I will file a bug report on Microsoft also, and will try to
install VmWare and Qemu and keep posted.

Best regards,

Fast

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Comment By: Dr Bill C Riemers (docbill)
Date: 2006-07-12 16:26

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My previous experience with Windows Beta releases, is it is
not worth trying to fix problems with software running in
them.  It is better to submit the bug report to Microsoft,
so hopefully the official Vista release will not have this
problem.  In the mean time, have you tried coLinux
alternatives, such as QEMU?  With the new kernel
acceleration mode, I expect performance on Qemu and coLinux
are close to equivalent...

Bill


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