On 03.12.23 19:58, Mario Marietto wrote:
Hello.
maybe someone of you know the old project called "coLinux" :
Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method
for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More
generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the
Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another
operating system on a single machine. For instance, it allows one to
freely run Linux on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, without using a
commercial PC virtualization software such as VMware, in a way which
is much more optimal than using any general purpose PC
virtualization software. In its current condition, it allows us to
run the KNOPPIX Japanese Edition on Windows.
CoLinux is very old and not maintained for a lot of time and I'm not
interested in resurrecting it (and I don't have the competences to do
it),BUT I'm interested to gather some information about a similar
project that I have in mind. What about if,instead of having a Linux
kernel which can run Windows cooperatively,we have a Linux kernel that
can run more Linux distributions (maybe only 2 as a starting point,as
CoLinux already does) at the same time,without using virtualization
software ?
Check out: User Mode Linux
Is the technology behind Colinux the same that's under the
lxc or docker containers
No
or the WSL2 subsystem ?
No
What are the differences ?
With LXC you still have just one Linux kernels, but for processes it
"feels" like they have their own kernel "alone" but actually they are
just isolated from the other processes. The kernel got better in
providing processes own seperated "environments".
WSL is bascially using a VM
I don't use WSL2,I don't use Windows so much. I like Linux and FreeBSD.
So,an even nicer idea is to create a coLinux variant that allows the
Linux kernel to cooperate with FreeBSD. This is even nicer than making a
cooperation between 2 Linuxes.
I don't really see why (except for engineering curiosity maybe) but
google, maybe there is something like this, you might also like Debian
GNU k FreeBSD
-- Richard
--
Mario.
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