lxrun files and information

Lxrun Files And Information

Lxrun allows you to access your Linux programs while running Solaris 7 and 8 on your Intel/x86 systems. I was able to install lxrun on a machine with Red Hat Linux 5.2 on one partition and Solaris 7 on another in less than an hour. Most of the Linux programs worked flawlessly from within OpenWindows. For details on lxrun and how to download the software, carefully study the links:

To use lxrun, you will need access to Linux either in a file system on your local computer or over your network.

The following files are needed to install lxrun:

ext2fs.tar.gz (111,226 bytes). This file contains the programs needed to mount the Linux file system on your Solaris system.
getext2fs (185 bytes). A helpful installation program. It needs to be edited to match your file system.
There is an upgrade for the above files for Solaris 8 in the file ext2fs.tar.gz (79,251 bytes).
lxrun.tar.gz (397,314 bytes). This file contains the lxrun program pre-compiled for x86 processors and Solaris 7.

The optional quake game program is one that can be run with lxrun. This can be installed in your Linux file system and then accessed by lxrun from your Solaris system.

quake2-3.20-6.i386.rpm (6,008,133 bytes). The Quake game binary for Linux.

Further Comments

Philip Brown (the provider of the pkg-get utility) sends the following comments on lxrun:

Subject: tip for lxrun pages
From: phil@bolthole.com (Philip Brown)

Something that seems to be missing from all lxrun pages I have found so far:

DETAILED info on how to get an linux image set up, if you don't particularly want to go out and buy a cd first.

If you happen to have DSL/cablemodem like me, then it seems the following steps will work, asuming you have 700 megs free:

1. go to your nearest redhat mirror, and download

redhat/redhat-6.2/iso/redhat-6.2-i386.iso

2. Make a virtual block-device for that file, with

# lofiadm -a `pwd`/redhat-6.2-i386.iso

3. use the INSTALL-RH6 script that comes with lxrun, but when it prompts for the cdrom block device, use /dev/lofi/1

(and of course, lofiadm -d the file when done.)

I'm currently still at the download stage :-) But I'm highly confident this is the way to go. I can already mount the partially downloaded cdrom image.

Lxrun Files And Information

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