a slightly modified colinux-daemon.exe (Was: Re: [coLinux-devel] Starting colinux-daemon.exe)

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

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:03:28PM -0500, my...@gm... wrote:
> First, thanks a bunch, Dan, for all of the hard work you've done. I'm
> looking forward for working with colinux, like many others who are
> following this project.
> 
> I download and installed the binary files, per the instructions in the
> README. The TAP-Win32 driver seemed to install OK. When I try to run the
> colinux-daemon.exe program, I get "Error initializing the kernel driver"
> and it terminates with a "-1". FWIW, I'm running Windows-XP Pro. Any
> suggestions?

Since more than one person saw this problem, I've compiled a slightly 
modified colinux-daemon.exe and added it to the release.

Now, for the source code part of this message:

It appears that an error is wrongly propagated from kernel space 
to user space when the driver gets initialized by the daemon. The branch  
that gets affected is in co_manager_init() (colinux/user/manager.c). It 
also appears that it doesn't happen on my setup.

In the patched daemon, I changed co_manager_init() so that it would 
always return CO_RC_OK. With this patch, it appears that the daemon 
continues running on Matt's setup without other such failures.

Since this is a developers mailing list, I urge you to look at the 
source and send me a patch :) I mean, help me debug this faster. You do
want a working coLinux, right? ;).

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