Re: [coLinux-users] Native-Mode versus Win32

[Miller, S. <sha...@yr...>]

Thanks, Yin.

Right now, the coLinux .EXEs have dependencies on the Win32 sub-system; they use the Win32 API, whether run as a service or not.  For example, the top of the process tree on Windows XP might look something like:

- System
  - SMSS.EXE (Session Manager)
    - CSRSS.EXE (Client Server Runtime)
    - WinLogon.EXE (Windows NT Logon) <- Win32-dependent
      - Services.EXE (Services and Controller) <- Win32-dependent
      - LSASS.EXE (LSA Shell) <- Win32-dependent

I believe that all [non-driver] services are Win32 applications spawned by Services.EXE.  The minimal environment I'm interested in is:

- System
  - XXX.EXE

where XXX.EXE is a "native" executable which does some of whatever colinux-daemon.exe does...  Starts up a Linux and sits there.  It'd possibly need to do some of whatever the other colinux-*-daemon.exe programs do, in order to facilitate networking for the hosted Linux.

I'm wondering now if the Win32 dependencies are huge or if it might be relatively straight-forward to port the daemons to use the native API.

- Shao Miller

-----Original Message-----
From: yin sun [mailto:sun...@gm...] 
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 21:18
To: Miller, Shao
Cc: col...@li...
Subject: Re: [coLinux-users] Native-Mode versus Win32

don't know much about how windows separate the subsystem, looking at
the code inside kernel to see what is part of win32.
the user part can be removed completely in service mode.

/Yin

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Miller, Shao
<sha...@yr...> wrote:
> Good day to All,
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> coLinux is very nice.
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> I'm interested in the possibility of utilizing it in an environment without
> the Win32 subsystem.  This would be an environment with little more than the
> NT kernel, network, block and other NT drivers.
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> Since the various coLinux daemons and network-controlling applications are
> Win32 executables, I'm wondering if there's any chance at all that their
> functions could run solely in a "native" environment without the Win32
> subsystem available.  There needn't be any user interface at all; the idea
> is for a "headless" Windows with coLinux facilitating a Linux and making
> that Linux available on the network.
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> Does this seem remotely possible?
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> Thank you for your time, and for coLinux!
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> - Shao Miller
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