[coLinux-devel] Re: CoLinux and Distros ?

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

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:28:29PM +1100, Andrew Tierney wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Whats required to bootstrap an existing distro to use CoLinux ??
> Ie.. Knoppix English or Mandrake 9.2 ??
> I love the idea of running Linux on my XP box without VMWare..!
> Any info much appreciated.

Primarily, the requirement is creating a root block file system (using 
the loopback block device), while changing the disto to use newly added 
devices nodes /dev (cobd0, cobd1, etc...) instead of the /dev/hd* nodes.

The closest examples for this now are the file system images distributed 
with User Mode Linux. However, these images sometimes miss the /dev/console 
node which causes the init process to fail (this also happens with the  
regular non-UML Linux kernel). Creating that node fixes the problem.

Yesterday I was under the impression that the binaries are stable enough 
to be released. I hope to release some example binaries soon, so you 
and the others can experiment with it.

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