openSuSE 10.3 on top of Vista.

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These days, I do my work on a Lenovo T60. It has an Intel Core 2 T7200 2.00GHz with 1G of RAM. It came preloaded with Vista Business and IBM ThinkVantage software. According to Vista, it has a Window Experience Index base score of 4.0. Overall, the machine is pretty slick if you don't mind the occasional crash from Explorer and the dreaded blue screen.

I have been itching to have Linux on my laptop. But I don't want to partition my disk. It's already running out of space, and I have some pretty 'important' stuff in there. Further, I don't want to risk losing time doing reinstall if somehow my disk is corrupted.

Sometime after openSuSe 10.3 was released, I decided to have a go with Virtual PC 2007. It went okay. Performance wise is bearable. But I remembered a software I came across a few years back: coLinux. For those who haven't heard of coLinux: Quoting from coLinux official website:

coLinux is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine.".

I immediately downloaded the latest stable version and gave it a try.

Update: Gerard Braad sends in a link to his Installation instructions for opensuse 11.  Look it up here.

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