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Re: [coLinux-devel] XML configuration

[Regis N. <re...@ho...>]

Little typo:

colinux.nsi line 197 , read  "iDl.ini" instead of "test.ini"
test.nsi line 94 idem

Regis NEBOR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Regis NEBOR" <re...@ho...>
To: "Dan Aloni" <da...@co...>
Cc: <col...@li...>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [coLinux-devel] XML configuration


> Here it is. I merged my test.nsi in the current colinux.nsi.
> I didn't have the setup to test. It should just work or be really close to
> it :).
> Basically the installer can now download images from sourceforge on a
> totally random basis , or depending of the region.
>
> Regis NEBOR
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dan Aloni" <da...@co...>
> To: "Cooperative Linux Development" <col...@li...>
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:51 AM
> Subject: [coLinux-devel] XML configuration
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Would anyone like to volunteer and create a GUI-based .colinux.xml
> > generator/editor ? It could help new users of coLinux and It doesn't
> > require any kernel programming experience in order to be developed.
> >
> > I'd prefer if you use the FLTK toolkit. We can later merge it into
> > the FLTK console so it would appear more like VMware from the aspect
> > of editing the currently used configuration.
> >
> > I'd also thank anyone who can send a patch for the colinux.nsi script
> > that points the users to the rootfs image download location and
> > Wiki site.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -- 
> > Dan Aloni
> > da...@co...
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------
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Re: [coLinux-devel] XML configuration

[Regis N. <re...@ho...>]

Here it is. I merged my test.nsi in the current colinux.nsi.
I didn't have the setup to test. It should just work or be really close to
it :).
Basically the installer can now download images from sourceforge on a
totally random basis , or depending of the region.

Regis NEBOR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Aloni" <da...@co...>
To: "Cooperative Linux Development" <col...@li...>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:51 AM
Subject: [coLinux-devel] XML configuration


> Hello,
>
> Would anyone like to volunteer and create a GUI-based .colinux.xml
> generator/editor ? It could help new users of coLinux and It doesn't
> require any kernel programming experience in order to be developed.
>
> I'd prefer if you use the FLTK toolkit. We can later merge it into
> the FLTK console so it would appear more like VMware from the aspect
> of editing the currently used configuration.
>
> I'd also thank anyone who can send a patch for the colinux.nsi script
> that points the users to the rootfs image download location and
> Wiki site.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- 
> Dan Aloni
> da...@co...
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
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> Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of
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Re: [coLinux-devel] Wishlist

[tei <42...@in...>]

JOSE MIGUEL MARTINEZ escribió:

> First of all, congratulations and thanks for this great software.
> Now I can get rid of vmware and cygwin and use something more useful and
> open ;-)
> 
> I wanted to add something to the whislist, it is something I would find
> really useful. I use colinux for getting a handy debian system when I
> have to work in Windows. But I would like to get rid of the two windows
> opened when colinux starts. I do not need them as I connect to colinux
> through ssh, and I would thank put them in a small icon in the task bar.
> (as messenger and getright do).
> 
> Another thing I would like is having a colinux machine running as a
> service, not needing to log in a Windows session to have it runnning and
> being started when windows starts. Later I could log in via ssh and this
> way I could do a lot of things I like to do on Unix machines (tunnels,
> cron jobs...) in Windows machines I cannot migrate.
> 
> Thanks for all and congratulations again for this great piece of software,
> txemi.
> 

a user easy workaround is to rename colinux-console-nt.exe to 
colinux-console-fltk.  dbl click on colinux-daemon will open only 1 
window, a NT console that you can force FULLSCREEN with the usual 
alt-enter hotkeys

Suerte con eso, Jose.

note:

I feel very very bad posting this here. I know exist some feedback, 
wishlish, whatever and forums at sourceforge, I dont want to clutter 
this mail list with users mails bouncing here and there, so... maybe its 
need another mail list, a colinux-users@     EXCEPT - IF - developpers 
are not annoyed by this noise.

[coLinux-devel] coLinux GRID

[Digital I. Inc. <ok...@di...>]

Hello Ian Latter.

I think one idea is using sbuml on coLinux.
http://sbuml.sourceforge.net/

this is suspending function of user mode linux.
and I think same suspending image can share both
sbuml on native Linux and sbuml on coLinux on Windows.

of course, it runs on user mode.
so you can run untrusted VM safely.


      --- Okajima.

 

Re: [coLinux-devel] ANN: CoLinuxService v0.1 released

[<ch...@to...>]

2 bugs I found

1) Not really a bug but when using telnet to test the shutdown linux
configuration the telnet that comes with windows 2k sends cr/lf the read
statement in the script leaves the cr as part of $REPLY . I was able to
filter this off with
if [ ${REPLY:0:6} = 'KILLME' ]; then
and this still works fine when using it. The 6 would need to be changed
for a different length password


2) I am not getting clean shutdowns when shuting down windows while
service is running both when starting the service manualy or automaticly.
net stop colinux
works great. I'm not shure if the problem is that windows is not waiting
till the service gives the ok or if the message is not getting sent. (It's
just fscking due to unclean shutdown) I could do further tests to see on
monday or tuesday if you can not reproduce this.
I'm using an up to date win2k

chris


> I'm proud to announce that CoLinuxService v0.1 has been released.
>
> It allows you to run colinux as a Windows service and supports clean
> shutdown procedure with elementary authentication.

> Any feedback is welcome. Feel free to send patches and I'll include them
> in
> future versions.
>
> Jarek

Re: [coLinux-devel] XML configuration

[Digital I. Inc. <ok...@di...>]

Umm.. Nobody wants to do it?  Okay, It is easy. I will do it.

>Hello,
>
>Would anyone like to volunteer and create a GUI-based .colinux.xml
>generator/editor ? It could help new users of coLinux and It doesn't 
>require any kernel programming experience in order to be developed.
>
>I'd prefer if you use the FLTK toolkit. We can later merge it into
>the FLTK console so it would appear more like VMware from the aspect
>of editing the currently used configuration.
>
>I'd also thank anyone who can send a patch for the colinux.nsi script
>that points the users to the rootfs image download location and 
>Wiki site.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-- 
>Dan Aloni
>da...@co...
>
>
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Re: [coLinux-devel] XML configuration

[Regis N. <re...@ho...>]

I'll modify the installer script.

Regis NEBOR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Aloni" <da...@co...>
To: "Cooperative Linux Development" <col...@li...>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:51 AM
Subject: [coLinux-devel] XML configuration


> Hello,
> 
> Would anyone like to volunteer and create a GUI-based .colinux.xml
> generator/editor ? It could help new users of coLinux and It doesn't 
> require any kernel programming experience in order to be developed.
> 
> I'd prefer if you use the FLTK toolkit. We can later merge it into
> the FLTK console so it would appear more like VMware from the aspect
> of editing the currently used configuration.
> 
> I'd also thank anyone who can send a patch for the colinux.nsi script
> that points the users to the rootfs image download location and 
> Wiki site.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Dan Aloni
> da...@co...
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
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> Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of
> GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system
> administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click
> _______________________________________________
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> 

RE : [coLinux-devel] SMP system freeze completely

[Florent C. <flo...@un...>]

I have applied the imagecfg patch on the executables, now colinux works
perfectly on my P4 3.0C HT.

Like Alejandro, I've patched all .exe (I did not try to apply the patch
on colinux-deamon only).

Florent

-----Message d'origine-----
De=A0: Alejandro R. Sedeno [mailto:as...@MI...]=20
Envoy=E9=A0: vendredi 2 avril 2004 16:36
=C0=A0: Dan Aloni
Cc=A0: Florent CUETO; col...@li...
Objet=A0: Re: [coLinux-devel] SMP system freeze completely

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 09:11, Dan Aloni wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:51:29PM -0500, Alejandro R. Sedeno wrote:
> > I had the same problem on my work machine (P4, HT).
> >=20
> > Until a more permanent fix is made, what you can do is use imagecfg
> > (google: imagecfg) to set the colinux binaries to be uniprocessor.
> >=20
> > in your colinux dir:
> > imagecfg -u *.exe
>=20
> Are you saying that applying this modification to the executables
> allows to run coLinux on SMP/HT setups?
>=20
> If by tying the daemon process to one CPU the sympthoms stop from=20
> occuring, it may give a clue about what is causing the problem.

I'm doing that now at work, it seems to work most of the time, including
all night last night.

I've had a couple issues when starting and stopping it multiple times,
but I'd venture to say that's a different problem.

Note: I've not tested to see which specific binaries should be uniproc.
I think the colinux-daemon would be sufficient, but I just opted to
change them all.

-Alejandro

Re: [coLinux-devel] SMP system freeze completely

[Alejandro R. S. <as...@MI...>]

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 09:11, Dan Aloni wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:51:29PM -0500, Alejandro R. Sedeno wrote:
> > I had the same problem on my work machine (P4, HT).
> > 
> > Until a more permanent fix is made, what you can do is use imagecfg
> > (google: imagecfg) to set the colinux binaries to be uniprocessor.
> > 
> > in your colinux dir:
> > imagecfg -u *.exe
> 
> Are you saying that applying this modification to the executables
> allows to run coLinux on SMP/HT setups?
> 
> If by tying the daemon process to one CPU the sympthoms stop from 
> occuring, it may give a clue about what is causing the problem.

I'm doing that now at work, it seems to work most of the time, including
all night last night.

I've had a couple issues when starting and stopping it multiple times,
but I'd venture to say that's a different problem.

Note: I've not tested to see which specific binaries should be uniproc.
I think the colinux-daemon would be sufficient, but I just opted to
change them all.

-Alejandro

Re: [coLinux-devel] Knoppix and colinux

[Dan A. <da...@co...>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 09:12:17AM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> I read somewhere that the Japanese version of Knoppix had been modified to
> use colinux. Has anyone done the same with the english version? How well
> did it work? It would be nice to have a knoppix disk that users don't have
> to reboot their PC for, just insert it into the drive and Windows
> automatically starts Linux. Is this possible?

The Japanese interface is optional (but it is set as default in the 
images we use). If you specifiy lang=en in the boot parameters you 
get the regular English verison.

Running coLinux from an Autorun CDROM is currently something we are 
working on. It is basically a minimized bootstrapping root filesystem 
that uses the cloop.o (compressed loop) kernel module in order to 
mount the KNOPPIX image that sits inside the KNOPPIX CDROM iso. On 
startup it copies basic root file system files and set the symlinks 
for the rest of the directories inside the image. 

The image itself compressed is only 1.2mb and the only requirement is 
a KNOPPIX iso file or a real KNOPPIX CDROM in \Device\CdRom0. Besides 
coLinux itself, an X server would be automatically launched from the 
CDROM in order to provide a graphic interface.

-- 
Dan Aloni
da...@co...

Re: [coLinux-devel] SMP system freeze completely

[Dan A. <da...@co...>]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:51:29PM -0500, Alejandro R. Sedeno wrote:
> I had the same problem on my work machine (P4, HT).
> 
> Until a more permanent fix is made, what you can do is use imagecfg
> (google: imagecfg) to set the colinux binaries to be uniprocessor.
> 
> in your colinux dir:
> imagecfg -u *.exe

Are you saying that applying this modification to the executables
allows to run coLinux on SMP/HT setups?

If by tying the daemon process to one CPU the sympthoms stop from 
occuring, it may give a clue about what is causing the problem.

-- 
Dan Aloni
da...@co...

Re: Running CoLinux as a service (WAS Re: [coLinux-devel] Wishlist)

[<ch...@to...>]

> BTW. The "ssh" would be run in a LocalSystem context - that means: no
> profile, no HKEY_CURRENT_USER, and so on. Have you ever used ssh.exe in
> this
> environment? How would it handle "known_hosts"?

I have little understanding of this kind of windows stuff when I give this
a try today that will be my first time messing with services in windows
for real. For some reason my ideas don't always work out as often in
window as they do in Linux.

I have not messed with any of the power managemet stuff in linux but what
about the powerfail stuff in init? Could coLinux-daemon.exe somehow pass
that when told to shutdown. I'm not a programer (yet) so I'm not shure how
this would be done.

chris

[coLinux-devel] XML configuration

[Dan A. <da...@co...>]

Hello,

Would anyone like to volunteer and create a GUI-based .colinux.xml
generator/editor ? It could help new users of coLinux and It doesn't 
require any kernel programming experience in order to be developed.

I'd prefer if you use the FLTK toolkit. We can later merge it into
the FLTK console so it would appear more like VMware from the aspect
of editing the currently used configuration.

I'd also thank anyone who can send a patch for the colinux.nsi script
that points the users to the rootfs image download location and 
Wiki site.

Thanks,

-- 
Dan Aloni
da...@co...

[coLinux-devel] ANN: CoLinuxService v0.1 released

[Jaroslaw K. <ja...@zd...>]

I'm proud to announce that CoLinuxService v0.1 has been released.

It allows you to run colinux as a Windows service and supports clean
shutdown procedure with elementary authentication.

Full source code & binary is ready for download at

http://jaak.sav.net/colinux/CoLinuxService-0.1.zip

The code is available under the BSD license. Note that it contains portions
of Microsoft sample code by that comes with Visual C++ and I don't think
it's GPL-able.

Installation instructions can be found inside the archive.

Any feedback is welcome. Feel free to send patches and I'll include them in
future versions.

Jarek

Re: [coLinux-devel] Wishlist

[John L. <jo...@su...>]

start colinux with the -d argument. The daemon window will open 
minimized, and the terminal won't open at all.

John

JOSE MIGUEL MARTINEZ wrote:

>First of all, congratulations and thanks for this great software.
>Now I can get rid of vmware and cygwin and use something more useful and
>open ;-)
>
>I wanted to add something to the whislist, it is something I would find
>really useful. I use colinux for getting a handy debian system when I
>have to work in Windows. But I would like to get rid of the two windows
>opened when colinux starts. I do not need them as I connect to colinux
>through ssh, and I would thank put them in a small icon in the task bar.
>(as messenger and getright do).
>
>Another thing I would like is having a colinux machine running as a
>service, not needing to log in a Windows session to have it runnning and
>being started when windows starts. Later I could log in via ssh and this
>way I could do a lot of things I like to do on Unix machines (tunnels,
>cron jobs...) in Windows machines I cannot migrate.
>
>Thanks for all and congratulations again for this great piece of software,
>txemi.
>
>  
>

Re: Running CoLinux as a service (WAS Re: [coLinux-devel] Wishlist)

[Jaroslaw K. <ja...@zd...>]

Thanks for your comments, Chris.

Regarding the security issue for Stop - I know it's not secure at all. The
worst thing is that any network port scanner can shutdown your machine
without your

"only_from" comment is something that I've just updated in the zip file.

As for using ssh to shutdown the machine - I'm not sure if we can guarantee
that "ssh" can be safely called because windows may be in the process of
shutting down. AFAIR spawning new processes isn't guaranteed to succeed at
this moment. I may be wrong though.

BTW. The "ssh" would be run in a LocalSystem context - that means: no
profile, no HKEY_CURRENT_USER, and so on. Have you ever used ssh.exe in this
environment? How would it handle "known_hosts"?

I'm not sure I can release my source code to the public because it uses
portions of microsoft's sample code "service.c". As soon as I get rid of
this, I'll publish the sources so that everyone can play with them.

Jarek

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ch...@to...>
To: "Jaroslaw Kowalski" <ja...@zd...>
Cc: <col...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: Running CoLinux as a service (WAS Re: [coLinux-devel] Wishlist)


> I just downloaded http://jaak.sav.net/colinux/CoLinuxService.zip but don't
> have time to try it today. Looks like a really cool idea. One thing that
> you might want to add to the readme is that if the machine is setup for
> bridged networking then It would be a good idea to add
>
> only_from = windowsIPaddress
>
> to the /etc/xinetd.d/shutdown file to add at least a moderate amount of
> security. For the truely paranoid it may be a good idea to add the ability
> to do something like
>
> [stop]
> cmd ssh -i c:\Coshutdownid 192.168.0.40 shutdown -h now
>
> of course an unencrypted key pair would need to be generated for this so
> it probably would not be much more secure than the current method with the
> only_from added unless the id  was readable only by the administrator
> group.
>
> chris
>
>
> > Here's my quick and dirty way to run coLinux as a service in a reliable
> > manner.
> >
> > I have written a small service process, called CoLinuxService. When
> > started
> > it spawns a new instance of "colinux-daemon.exe". The service terminates
> > whenever the colinux-daemon.exe dies (something difficult to achieve
with
> > srvany.exe).
> >
> > I needed a way to reliably shutdown the coLinux instance, so I developed
a
> > quick hack. The linux machine has a special "xinetd" listener that
listens
> > on port 15555 does nothing but shutting down the machine.
> >
> > With this mechanism in place, whenever CoLinuxService receives "Stop"
> > command it just connects to the specified port and this initiates the
safe
> > shutdown sequence. If "connect()" call fails the colinux-daemon.exe is
> > terminated.
> >
> > The mechanism somewhat proved to reliable and I had no problems with it
> > for
> > 4, and that's why I decided to publish it.
> >
> > Binary of CoLinuxService.exe is available at
> > http://jaak.sav.net/colinux/CoLinuxService.zip
> > Setup instructions inside.
> >
> > Contact me if you want to get access to the source code.
> >
> > Jarek
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "JOSE MIGUEL MARTINEZ" <tx...@cl...>
> > To: <col...@li...>;
> > <col...@li...>
> > Cc: <tx...@eu...>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 6:15 PM
> > Subject: [coLinux-devel] Wishlist
> >
> >
> >>
> >> First of all, congratulations and thanks for this great software.
> >> Now I can get rid of vmware and cygwin and use something more useful
and
> >> open ;-)
> >>
> >> I wanted to add something to the whislist, it is something I would find
> >> really useful. I use colinux for getting a handy debian system when I
> >> have to work in Windows. But I would like to get rid of the two windows
> >> opened when colinux starts. I do not need them as I connect to colinux
> >> through ssh, and I would thank put them in a small icon in the task
bar.
> >> (as messenger and getright do).
> >>
> >> Another thing I would like is having a colinux machine running as a
> >> service, not needing to log in a Windows session to have it runnning
and
> >> being started when windows starts. Later I could log in via ssh and
this
> >> way I could do a lot of things I like to do on Unix machines (tunnels,
> >> cron jobs...) in Windows machines I cannot migrate.
> >>
> >> Thanks for all and congratulations again for this great piece of
> >> software,
> >> txemi.
> >>
> >> --
> >>  ______________________________
> >> < hola, soy una firma horrible >
> >>  ------------------------------
> >>         \   ^__^
> >>          \  (oo)\_______
> >>             (__)\       )\/\
> >>                 ||----w |
> >>                 ||     ||
> >>
> >> mail: txemi <tx...@eu...>
> >> web: http://txemi.webhop.org
> >> mirror: http://txemi2.webhop.org
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -------------------------------------------------------
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> >> Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of
> >> GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system
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> >>
> >
> >
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> >
>

Re: [coLinux-devel] Dual boot vs. coLinux setup

[Ronald P. <pij...@ds...>]

morfic wrote:
> Im very curious about the freezing part

As just posted in another mail, the freezing was related to Gentoo 
accessing the framebuffer. I´ve had no problems in the course of this 
evening (on a HT machine even).

Ronald

Re: [coLinux-devel] Dual boot vs. coLinux setup

[Ronald P. <pij...@ds...>]

ch...@to... wrote:
> If you set inittab to boot to runlevel 3 that would probably be the
> easiest way to find out if X is the problem. If that is it and you later
> decide that you would like an X login then the solution I gave for fstab
> would work for changing out inittab and if you want to use an xdmcp
> solution for cygX or vnc then you could use my method to swap out the
> config file for xdm or gdm there is a setting there for not creating a
> local display which you could set in the coLinux version of the file.
> 
> chris

Hmm... that´s a mighty lot of files in one sentence. I think I 
understand what you´re getting at. I´ve been reading the Gentoo init 
documentation, and I´ve got the feeling there´s quite some interesting 
things to do with that. E.g. I could define a complete extra 
(soft)runlevel for booting coLinux. With a kernel parameter 
softlevel=coLinux it would boot into this runlevel. This should allow 
for doing some of the right things. Combined with your initrd boot 
option, I should be able to make this work.

Thanks for the input.


Ronald.

Re: Running CoLinux as a service (WAS Re: [coLinux-devel] Wishlist)

[<ch...@to...>]

I just downloaded http://jaak.sav.net/colinux/CoLinuxService.zip but don't
have time to try it today. Looks like a really cool idea. One thing that
you might want to add to the readme is that if the machine is setup for
bridged networking then It would be a good idea to add

only_from = windowsIPaddress

to the /etc/xinetd.d/shutdown file to add at least a moderate amount of
security. For the truely paranoid it may be a good idea to add the ability
to do something like

[stop]
cmd ssh -i c:\Coshutdownid 192.168.0.40 shutdown -h now

of course an unencrypted key pair would need to be generated for this so
it probably would not be much more secure than the current method with the
only_from added unless the id  was readable only by the administrator
group.

chris


> Here's my quick and dirty way to run coLinux as a service in a reliable
> manner.
>
> I have written a small service process, called CoLinuxService. When
> started
> it spawns a new instance of "colinux-daemon.exe". The service terminates
> whenever the colinux-daemon.exe dies (something difficult to achieve with
> srvany.exe).
>
> I needed a way to reliably shutdown the coLinux instance, so I developed a
> quick hack. The linux machine has a special "xinetd" listener that listens
> on port 15555 does nothing but shutting down the machine.
>
> With this mechanism in place, whenever CoLinuxService receives "Stop"
> command it just connects to the specified port and this initiates the safe
> shutdown sequence. If "connect()" call fails the colinux-daemon.exe is
> terminated.
>
> The mechanism somewhat proved to reliable and I had no problems with it
> for
> 4, and that's why I decided to publish it.
>
> Binary of CoLinuxService.exe is available at
> http://jaak.sav.net/colinux/CoLinuxService.zip
> Setup instructions inside.
>
> Contact me if you want to get access to the source code.
>
> Jarek
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JOSE MIGUEL MARTINEZ" <tx...@cl...>
> To: <col...@li...>;
> <col...@li...>
> Cc: <tx...@eu...>
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 6:15 PM
> Subject: [coLinux-devel] Wishlist
>
>
>>
>> First of all, congratulations and thanks for this great software.
>> Now I can get rid of vmware and cygwin and use something more useful and
>> open ;-)
>>
>> I wanted to add something to the whislist, it is something I would find
>> really useful. I use colinux for getting a handy debian system when I
>> have to work in Windows. But I would like to get rid of the two windows
>> opened when colinux starts. I do not need them as I connect to colinux
>> through ssh, and I would thank put them in a small icon in the task bar.
>> (as messenger and getright do).
>>
>> Another thing I would like is having a colinux machine running as a
>> service, not needing to log in a Windows session to have it runnning and
>> being started when windows starts. Later I could log in via ssh and this
>> way I could do a lot of things I like to do on Unix machines (tunnels,
>> cron jobs...) in Windows machines I cannot migrate.
>>
>> Thanks for all and congratulations again for this great piece of
>> software,
>> txemi.
>>
>> --
>>  ______________________________
>> < hola, soy una firma horrible >
>>  ------------------------------
>>         \   ^__^
>>          \  (oo)\_______
>>             (__)\       )\/\
>>                 ||----w |
>>                 ||     ||
>>
>> mail: txemi <tx...@eu...>
>> web: http://txemi.webhop.org
>> mirror: http://txemi2.webhop.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [coLinux-devel] Dual boot vs. coLinux setup

[Ronald P. <pij...@ds...>]

John LeSueur wrote:
> My guess is that gentoo is trying to start x at that point?  or doing 
> some other framebuffer operation?  If so, that is what is causing the 
> freeze.  Colinux doesn't yet support linux trying to use your display 
> adapter.

Yes, you´re very right. Booting with ¨single¨ lets me run Gentoo nicely. 
In fact, this mail is currently typed from Remote X-ing into Gentoo 
inside coLinux in WindowsXP :)

Getting there...

Ronald.

Running CoLinux as a service (WAS Re: [coLinux-devel] Wishlist)

[Jaroslaw K. <ja...@zd...>]

Here's my quick and dirty way to run coLinux as a service in a reliable
manner.

I have written a small service process, called CoLinuxService. When started
it spawns a new instance of "colinux-daemon.exe". The service terminates
whenever the colinux-daemon.exe dies (something difficult to achieve with
srvany.exe).

I needed a way to reliably shutdown the coLinux instance, so I developed a
quick hack. The linux machine has a special "xinetd" listener that listens
on port 15555 does nothing but shutting down the machine.

With this mechanism in place, whenever CoLinuxService receives "Stop"
command it just connects to the specified port and this initiates the safe
shutdown sequence. If "connect()" call fails the colinux-daemon.exe is
terminated.

The mechanism somewhat proved to reliable and I had no problems with it for
4, and that's why I decided to publish it.

Binary of CoLinuxService.exe is available at
http://jaak.sav.net/colinux/CoLinuxService.zip
Setup instructions inside.

Contact me if you want to get access to the source code.

Jarek
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JOSE MIGUEL MARTINEZ" <tx...@cl...>
To: <col...@li...>;
<col...@li...>
Cc: <tx...@eu...>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 6:15 PM
Subject: [coLinux-devel] Wishlist


>
> First of all, congratulations and thanks for this great software.
> Now I can get rid of vmware and cygwin and use something more useful and
> open ;-)
>
> I wanted to add something to the whislist, it is something I would find
> really useful. I use colinux for getting a handy debian system when I
> have to work in Windows. But I would like to get rid of the two windows
> opened when colinux starts. I do not need them as I connect to colinux
> through ssh, and I would thank put them in a small icon in the task bar.
> (as messenger and getright do).
>
> Another thing I would like is having a colinux machine running as a
> service, not needing to log in a Windows session to have it runnning and
> being started when windows starts. Later I could log in via ssh and this
> way I could do a lot of things I like to do on Unix machines (tunnels,
> cron jobs...) in Windows machines I cannot migrate.
>
> Thanks for all and congratulations again for this great piece of software,
> txemi.
>
> -- 
>  ______________________________
> < hola, soy una firma horrible >
>  ------------------------------
>         \   ^__^
>          \  (oo)\_______
>             (__)\       )\/\
>                 ||----w |
>                 ||     ||
>
> mail: txemi <tx...@eu...>
> web: http://txemi.webhop.org
> mirror: http://txemi2.webhop.org
>
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials
> Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of
> GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system
> administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click
> _______________________________________________
> coLinux-devel mailing list
> coL...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/colinux-devel
>

[coLinux-devel] Wishlist

[JOSE M. M. <tx...@cl...>]

First of all, congratulations and thanks for this great software.
Now I can get rid of vmware and cygwin and use something more useful and
open ;-)

I wanted to add something to the whislist, it is something I would find
really useful. I use colinux for getting a handy debian system when I
have to work in Windows. But I would like to get rid of the two windows
opened when colinux starts. I do not need them as I connect to colinux
through ssh, and I would thank put them in a small icon in the task bar.
(as messenger and getright do).

Another thing I would like is having a colinux machine running as a
service, not needing to log in a Windows session to have it runnning and
being started when windows starts. Later I could log in via ssh and this
way I could do a lot of things I like to do on Unix machines (tunnels,
cron jobs...) in Windows machines I cannot migrate.

Thanks for all and congratulations again for this great piece of software,
txemi.

-- 
 ______________________________
< hola, soy una firma horrible >
 ------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

mail: txemi <tx...@eu...>
web: http://txemi.webhop.org
mirror: http://txemi2.webhop.org

[coLinux-devel] Re: Some problems with modules, fonts and TAP networking

[Wojciech D. <wo...@wi...>]

> The gentoo image is configured to use dhcp I assume from below you are
> using the TAP connection. If you do not have your internet conection set
> up to be shared then your windows host will not be providing DHCP so you
> need to setup gentoo with a static address or share your internet
> connection in windows. That is my best guess based on what you said.

I use TAP.  My internet connection is shared.  But will try with static 
IP.

Wojtek

Re: [coLinux-devel] Some problems with modules, fonts and TAP networking

[<ch...@to...>]

scp is probably the easiest way to copy files from windows and is usually
th e one I use. But that depends on # 3 networking also setting up samba
is probably the easiest to use every day once you get it configured also
depends on #3

The gentoo image is configured to use dhcp I assume from below you are
using the TAP connection. If you do not have your internet conection set
up to be shared then your windows host will not be providing DHCP so you
need to setup gentoo with a static address or share your internet
connection in windows. That is my best guess based on what you said.

chris


> Hi,
>
>
> I installed coLinux 0.6.0.  I'm using gentoo-i686-ext3-1gb.bz2 image as
> root fs.  (I tried  gentoo-i586-ext3-2g-deluxe.bz2 too.)
> I'v encountered the following problems during booting up:
>
>
> 1)  coLinux can't find module dependencies because there is no directory
> /lib/modules/2.4.25-co-0.6.0.
>
> There is /lib/modules/2.4.24-co in the gentoo image.  How can I move
> content of vmlinux-modules.tar.gz into image file?  Are there any tools to
> do this under Cygwin for example?
>
>
> 2)  putfont: KDFONTOP: No such file or directory
>
>
> 3)  Failed to bring eth0 up
>
> It hangs for 1-2 minutes during bringing eth0 up.  If I look at the state
> of tap0 connection (windows side (WinXP)) I can see that some packets are
> sent but no packets are received.
> coLinux is rather useless without networking.  What could be wrong?
>
>
> Wojciech Dec
>

[coLinux-devel] Some problems with modules, fonts and TAP networking

[Wojciech D. <wo...@wi...>]

Hi,


I installed coLinux 0.6.0.  I'm using gentoo-i686-ext3-1gb.bz2 image as 
root fs.  (I tried  gentoo-i586-ext3-2g-deluxe.bz2 too.)
I'v encountered the following problems during booting up:


1)  coLinux can't find module dependencies because there is no directory 
/lib/modules/2.4.25-co-0.6.0.

There is /lib/modules/2.4.24-co in the gentoo image.  How can I move 
content of vmlinux-modules.tar.gz into image file?  Are there any tools to 
do this under Cygwin for example?


2)  putfont: KDFONTOP: No such file or directory


3)  Failed to bring eth0 up

It hangs for 1-2 minutes during bringing eth0 up.  If I look at the state 
of tap0 connection (windows side (WinXP)) I can see that some packets are 
sent but no packets are received.
coLinux is rather useless without networking.  What could be wrong?


Wojciech Dec