Samo Lin na Win2000 ili XP,kao servis ili kao program.
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It allows the Linux kernel to run as a program or service under Windows 2000 or XP without using a commercial PC virtualization system such as User Mode Linux or VMware.
Specifically, coLinux - a port of the 2.6 kernel - is "special driver software on the host operating system [that executes] the coLinux kernel in a privileged mode [known as ring 0 or supervisor mode]," says coLinux development team leader and project originator Dan Aloni.
Aloni goes on: "By constantly switching the machine's state between the host operating system state and the coLinux kernel state, coLinux is given full control of the physical machine's [Memory Management Unit] (such as paging and protection) in its own specially allocated address space, and is able to act just like a native kernel, achieving almost the same performance and functionality that can be expected from a regular Linux which could have ran on the same machine stand-alone."
To share hardware with the host operating system, coLinux does not access I/O devices directly. Aloni says coLinux "interfaces with emulated devices provided by the coLinux drivers in the host operating system. . . . All real hardware interrupts are transparently forwarded to the host operating system, so this way the host operating system's control of the real hardware is not being disturbed and thus it continues to run smoothly."
The final crucial point is that, "since coLinux uses the same binary format for user-space executables as native Linux, coLinux can load and run an existing unmodified Linux distribution concurrently with the host operating system."
In other words, coLinux is really Linux and thus becomes a remarkably effective platform for learning how Linux works and for running those cool Linux-only applications under Windows.
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14-ISO/IEC 9899:1999