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"Cooperative Linux, abbreviated as coLinux, is software which allows Microsoft Windows and the Linux kernel to run simultaneously in parallel on the same machine."

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Imho cooperative linux critical flaw is that it doesn't share filesystem with the host windows

I totally agree, it makes it more efficient, but not more practical than the usual virtual machine.

Colinux has the ability to mount your windows fs nowadays. I think the Linux module is called "cofs".

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