colinux-devel

[coLinux-devel] Feature Requests

[Ian L. <Ian...@mq...>]

This is early days - I understand that  the project is currently active 
as a "beta only, test and feed back please" system, but I've got a 
couple of requests, from my testing, for when the time is appropriate.


For future consideration;

  -- A commandline switch to disable the diagnostic screen 
     from starting automatically, when colinux-daemon.exe is
     launched.

  -- A commandline switch to enable colinux-console.exe to
      connect to either the default console (console0), or the 
      specified console.

  -- If its not there already (I can't be sure), to have the "file
     -> quit" (or window close) option of the colinux-console.exe
     automatically detach from the current console.


  Also, when I booted the CHAOS file system under the coLinux
kernel, I first configured the default.colinux.xml file with;     
<bootparams>init=/bin/sh</bootparams> .. but it still booted with
the init at /sbin/init (I was quite surprised to see the OS ready 
when I got there - I didn't expect it to port cleanly the first time;
the reason behind the experiment).
  Is this feature currently hardcoded, or ignored, in the config file?


Thanks,



--
Ian Latter
Internet and Networking Security Officer
Macquarie University

 Meet me at the Australian Unix and open systems
   User Group (AUUG) Security Symposium; 2004
  http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/security/

Re: [coLinux-devel] Feature Requests

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

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:07:00PM +1000, Ian Latter wrote:
> This is early days - I understand that  the project is currently active 
> as a "beta only, test and feed back please" system, but I've got a 
> couple of requests, from my testing, for when the time is appropriate.
> 
> 
> For future consideration;
> 
>   -- A commandline switch to disable the diagnostic screen 
>      from starting automatically, when colinux-daemon.exe is
>      launched.

AFAIK, EXE files in Windows has a it which says if it is 
has a console or not. Perhaps I could supply 2 EXE files.

>   -- A commandline switch to enable colinux-console.exe to
>       connect to either the default console (console0), or the 
>       specified console.

Try: colinux-console.exe -a 0 

>   -- If its not there already (I can't be sure), to have the "file
>      -> quit" (or window close) option of the colinux-console.exe
>      automatically detach from the current console.

I think it's already there, I'll check it out.

> 
> 
>   Also, when I booted the CHAOS file system under the coLinux
> kernel, I first configured the default.colinux.xml file with;     
> <bootparams>init=/bin/sh</bootparams> .. but it still booted with
> the init at /sbin/init (I was quite surprised to see the OS ready 
> when I got there - I didn't expect it to port cleanly the first time;
> the reason behind the experiment).
>   Is this feature currently hardcoded, or ignored, in the config file?

/sbin/init is currently hardcoded. The next version will take that info
from the XML.

-- 
Dan Aloni
da...@gm...