Re: [coLinux-devel] 2.6 kernel ?

[Jaroslaw K. <ja...@zd...>]

Sorry about the "guest os" term. I think I know how colinux works.

Question to Dan: do you plan to port colinux to 2.6?

Jarek
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory M. Turner" <gmt...@am...>
To: <col...@li...>
Cc: "Jaroslaw Kowalski" <ja...@zd...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: [coLinux-devel] 2.6 kernel ?


> On Tuesday 06 April 2004 09:36 am, Jaroslaw Kowalski wrote:
> > Hi guys!
> >
> > Does coLinux support 2.6 kernel as a guest OS ? Is there a patch
available
> > for 2.6.5? I'd like to use NTPL and it seems non-obvious with 2.4
> > kernels...
> >
> > Jarek
>
> Nope -- colinux is not an emulator like VMWare, but (in part), a linux
kernel
> that has been modified to run under Windows (and now Linux) using some
> "trickery" analagous to User-Mode Linux.  That's why it's faster than
VMWare
> -- look Ma, no emulation!  The upshot is: to achieve this, one has to port
> the coLinux kernel patch forward to 2.6.  Presumably this is nontrivial,
or
> Dan would have done it already.
>
> -- 
> gmt
>