Bug 132480

Summary:	Add support for booting OpenSuSE with coLinux (http://www.colinux.org) from a running Windows machine
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Rachman Chavik <rchavik>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Adrian Schröter <adrian.schroeter>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Rachman Chavik 2005-11-05 21:32:26 UTC

coLinux allows dual-boot (Win+Linux) machine owners to start Linux when running Windows.

It is similar to UML.  However, UML normally uses a root image stored on the host OS, but coLinux may use existing Linux partitions as the root filesystem.

It would be nice if we could support this in OpenSuSE.

Thank you.

Comment 1 Andreas Jaeger 2008-04-28 15:19:58 UTC

We're not going to support this for openSUSE, sorry for the long time to keep this open.

Comment 2 Rachman Chavik 2008-04-29 05:53:54 UTC

Thanks for the update.

Just want to add a note that I managed to get this working by jumping through hoops:
- install barebone openSuSE via QEMU (I used openSuSE 10.3)
- create a empty coLinux image
- mount a coLinux image within QEMU, and copy the contents of / to the coLinux partition.
- exit QEMU and boot the new image in coLinux.

I wrote a brief note describing my experience here : http://serbalinux.com/portal/tips-and-tricks/34-tips-and-tricks/1014-opensuse-103-on-top-of-vista

I found these pages that helped me:
http://greenfly.org/tips/filesystem_migration.html
http://osdir.com/ml/linux.colinux.general/2005-02/msg00174.html

Thank you.