I Ported CoLinux to X64 and expanded the driver to support all NT versions starting 5.2(XP) which atp is basically WSL but FOSS (Linux Kernel: 7.1.5 // NT: 10)

coLinux was the pre-VM way to run Linux on Windows, two kernels cooperating at ring 0, no hypervisor. It died in 2011, stuck on 32-bit (kernel 2.6.33 // NT6.2) and unable to load on any 64-bit Windows. There is GPU sharing but its kinda miserable, im hoping for 0.6.0 to have that run at full speed ((currently it is only doing 0.01% bandwidth of the CoXWire i have built puts out))

I ported the cooperative model to x86-64, a single unmodified driver that boots a modern Linux 7.1.5 guest on 64-bit XP, 7, 8.1, and 10, with GPU acceleration via virgl (screenshot is KDE Plasma 6 on Windows 10 IoT, rendering on the host GT 730).

PS, this is not a VM there's no hypervisor. it needs VBS/HVCI off, so it runs the pre-VBS NT line. Think of it as the machines WSL2 abandoned.

Also fixed the old build tree (mingw NDIS header, Python 3 comake) and hit modern-kernel gotchas coLinux never saw, KPTI's dual CR3, etc.

Repo: (let me know if there are any bugs, this is kinda hard to test across 4 windows's)
Don't run it inside a VM, the cooperative switch conflicts with VMX and you'll get a bugcheck.

AI Disclosure: Used Claude heavily during development (and i gotta say i was really disappointed with Opus 5's performance), all the decisions and design details taken here are mine however.