Cooperative Linux

A treaty between two OS giants

Sanjeev Kumar Malla Regd. No.:-0801304166
Department Of Computer Science Engineering & Information Technology

Gandhi Institute Of Technology And Management(GITAM) Bhubaneswar

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Why CoLinux ? Introduction Histroy Design Overviews Tools available Uses Current Status Planed Features Disadvantages Conclusion References

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Why CoLinux ?
Requirement of GCC for software development

Problem:

Solution:
Install Linux OS on system New Problem:

Booting time extended, Unfamiliar with

Solution:

new OS

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What is CoLinux ?

Cooperative Linux, a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run as an unprivileged lightweight virtual machine in kernel mode, on top of another OS kernel. Uses the concept of Cooperative Virtual Machine (CVM) Contains special Windows drivers, which allow it to run under Windows XP as a guest operating system with all privileges. Superior over other traditional virtualization solutions like VMware, Xen which provides less privileges to guest OS.
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History

Dan Aloni originally started the development of Cooperative Linux based on similar work with User-mode Linux. He open sourced the software under the GNU General Public License.

Other developers have since contributed various patches

and additions to the software.

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Design Overviews

Device Driver The device driver port of Cooperative Linux is used for accessing kernel mode . Driver loads a kernel image from a vmlinux file.

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Pseudo Physical RAM All the memory which CoLinux considers as physical in

the allocated set is called Pseudo Physical RAM

(PPRAM). Allocated pages are always resident and not freed until the VM is downed.

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Design Overviews

Context Switching The Cooperative Linux VM uses only one host OS

process in order to provide a context for itself and its

processes, viz. colinux-daemon . CoLinux is able to completely control the CPU and MMU without affecting anything else in the host OS kernel. Uses an intermediate address space during switching

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Design Overviews

Address space transition during an OS cooperative kernel switch, using an intermapped page
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Interrupt Handling and Forwarding Cooperative Linux only forwards the invocations of interrupts to the host OS in order to keep functioning and

support the coLinux-daemon process itself, regardless to

the fact that external hardware interrupts are meaningless to the Cooperative Linux virtual machine.

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Tools Available

Original GNU tools for compiling C/C++ programs and corresponding libraries Open source editor PN (Programmers Notepad) TFTP server for file transfer Telnet Client

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Uses

Relatively effortless migration path from Windows. Adding Windows machines to Linux clusters. Using Linux as a Windows firewall on the same machine. Linux kernel development, debugging, research and study on another operating systems.

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Current Features

Version: 0.6.4 Released on date: July 02, 2006

Supported architectures:
Intel-compatible 386 and above Supported operating systems:

Windows 2000 Windows XP Linux 2.6.x Supported guest Linux kernel versions:
2.6.11
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Planned Features

Suspension User Mode Linux inside Cooperative Linux Live Cooperative Distributions Integration with ReactOS. Virtual frame buffer support. Support for more host operating systems such as FreeBSD.

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Disadvantages

CoLinux runs aside the Windows kernel on the same hardware abstraction layer . A problem in the Linux kernel can bring the Windows kernel down . Uses two different IP address for windows and Colinux . Also to load and use coLinux the user has to have administrator rights .

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Conclusion

The colinux is an economical and efficient possibility to program embedded Linux systems directly from a Windows PC. As user friendliness of the Windows port will improve, the exposure that Linux gets by the average computer user can

increase tremendously.

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References

www.colinux.org www.sourceforge.net/projets/coLinux www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/colinux www.user-mode-linux.sf.net

Proceedings of the Linux Symposium, Volume One, o Review Committee
Jes Sorensen, Wild Open Source, Inc.,Matt Domsch, Dell ,Gerrit Huizenga, IBM ,Matthew Wilcox, Hewlett-Packard ,Dirk Hohndel, Intel ,Val Henson, Sun Microsystems, Jamal Hadi Salimi, Znyx ,Andrew Hutton, Steamballoon, Inc.

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