Re: [coLinux-devel] How necessary is the TAP driver?

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

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 09:08:07PM -0800, Chris Dahl wrote:
> Anyway... to my question...  I guess I am wondering if the TAP driver is ONLY
> needed for networking.  That is, I know that if you try to run colinux without
> it, it dies.  Could colinux be configured to continue "booting" even if the
> driver is not installed?   Why?  I was just thinking about how cool it would be
> if I had colinux and a small disk image on my keychain flash drive.  Then I
> could just plug it into whatever Windows computer I happen to have handy, click
> an icon and have linux up and running.  No drivers required.  (nice if it not
> YOUR computer) I realize that the xml configuration file has the location of
> the disk image hard coded, but it would be easy enough to address that.  And
> yes, I know that flash has a "limited" number of write cycles... Just wondering
> if it can be done.  Thoughts?
> 
> Again, thank you for such a great project.

Latest version of coLinux (0.5.3-pre1) can work without the TAP driver, 
since I separated the colinux net daemon from the main daemon.

And about Windows drivers, coLinux must use its own driver (linux.sys) 
in order to run.

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