Reisunorg

Through a tangled chain of steps, I have concluded that I need to have a Linux VM on my Windows XP Everex laptop. (Need to manage my side projects at home –> Found TaskJuggler–>Didn’t want to install Cygwin to run it in Windows –> Need to install it on Linux that is easily accessible by my laptop –> Checked out Virtual Machine solutions, like Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2007 and VMWare Player –> Remembered CoLinux from when I played with the gp2x devkit)

I thought CoLinux would be the easiest way to have a linux VM running on my laptop so that I can use TaskJuggler. Unfortunately for the latest pre-release version (0.7.1), the SLIRP method of accessing the internet through the laptop didn’t work. Neither really did the TAP method of connecting to the host. What did work was the WinPCap method, which creates a bridge between the host and colinux network interfaces and the internet connection.