[coLinux-users] Re: snapshot 20040710

[Sarah T. <sar...@ya...>]

Dan, I tried to play with this snapshot but none of the gentoo distribution
works. It seems that it does not work with 2.4 kernel. Where can I get the
2.6 gentoo distribution? Thanks


"Dan Aloni" <da...@co...> wrote in message
news:200...@ca......
> Good evening,
>
> I've just uploaded a new snapshot - 20040710. It brings forth a bunch
> of changes, and hopefully solves some reported bugs (I'd be glad to
> receive confirmation mails).
>
> Changes since 20040622:
>
>   * Added a coserial deamon, that allows one to open a serial terminal
>     to the guest machine (You can run /sbin/mgetty ttyS0 in the guest
>     and then run the daemon in the host and get a login prompt :).
>     Porting this daemon to Windows should be relatively easy, though I
>     can't promise that the Windows Win32 console can handle the terminal
>     properties of the Linux end, but it would be interesting to find out.
>   * Improved debugging - we now have a debug messages "collector"
>     deamon named colinux-debug-deamon, which collects debug messages
>     from all the coLinux components. This also changes the way things
>     are printed when you run the daemon (it is now easier to see
>     what belongs to what). All debug messages are off by default,
>     so things may go a little faster.
>   * An API version number was added to make sure that you use the
>     right vmlinux and user-space executables with the right coLinux
>     driver (previously it caused crashes if the APIs changed).
>   * Bug fix: A tiny memory leak when coLinux is shutting down.
>   * Bug fix: Proper reference counting of the driver in the Linux
>     port.
>   * Bug fix: The network driver (conet) now verifies checksums (as
>     network packets that are received by PCAP can indeed be bad).
>   * Added block device aliasing, e.g alias="hda2". You can specify
>     such an alias in the <block_device> element in the configuration
>     XML and expect coLinux to mount it, even when passed with root=.
>     NOTE: The cobdX device and its alias are mutual exclusive, which
>     means that you can't mount both of them at the same time.
>   * Bug fix: Proper floating point state preservation in the Linux
>     guest. coLinux now passes the flops20 test program.
>   * Implemented a new timer for the Linux guest, this should fix
>     time-going-back issues.
>   * Improved message passing, which may boost networking a bit.
>   * Win32-TAP driver upgraded to version 8.1. This version doesn't
>     bring any changes to the actual driver code. However it was
>     released in order to notify the other projects that bundle the
>     TAP driver along with their software, to modify the name
>     identifer of the driver so that multiple TAP driver users can
>     coexist (e.g, OpenVPN with coLinux). Therefore, coLinux now
>     installs its TAP driver as TAPxxxxco (where xxxx is the
>     driver version).
>     After installing it, you will notice " (coLinux)" appended to
>     the device name in the Network Connections manager. The old
>     driver will remain until it is uninstalled.
>
> -- 
> Dan Aloni
> da...@co...
>
>
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