[coLinux-devel] Re: wish list

[Sarah T. <sar...@ya...>]

First of all, thank you for answering my question. I'm sure this will not be
the last
as I'm quite intrique with this virtualization stuff.

> > Perhaps you coLinux guru can help me out for the following:
> >
> > Suppose that I have dual boot machine, Windows(partition1) and
> > Linux(partition2). I know that I can convert the Linux installation to
work
> > with coLinux within Windows, but with many things to alter such as the
fstab
> > entry(change the /dev/hd??,/dev/sd??,etc to /dev/cobd? or /dev/cobd/?
and
> > disable loading modules of some devices such as USB, etc ...(dunno how
yet).
>
> You don't actually need to disable module loading, but rather put the
right
> modules for the running coLinux kernel under the /lib/modules directory.

Will coLinux kernel will be able to know which /lib/modules/<kernel-version>
to use or manual changes still have to be done?

>
> > My question is that is it possible that coLinux do the automatic
> > reconfiguration for such environment e,g:
>
> The next snapshot version of coLinux will include device node aliasing,
> which means that you can configure any cobd to appear as a hd or sda
> partition, and even boot from it (e.g. root=/dev/hda4). Theoretically it
> would be possible to probe the Linux partitions in the Windows side and
> create a proper configuration file. This way you don't need to change
> /ect/fstab.

Cool. I could not wait to try it out.