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

[<my...@gm...>]

OK, that was different - it didn't work for me. I get a blue-screen when I
run the modified colinux-daemon.exe, due to:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Larry


> 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...
>
>
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