Editing Cooperative Linux (section)

{{Short description|Software to run Windows and Linux simultaneously}}
{{Primary sources|date=July 2009}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = Cooperative Linux
| logo                   = CoLinux logo.png
| screenshot             =
| caption                = [[Ubuntu (operating system)|Ubuntu]] on [[Windows Vista]]
| author                 = Dan Aloni
| developer              = Community
| released               = {{Start date and age|2004|01|25}}
| latest_release_version = 0.7.9 <ref name="status">{{Cite web |url=https://www.colinux.org/?section=status |title=Cooperative Linux Documentation |access-date=2020-08-08 |archive-date=2023-05-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230513210958/http://www.colinux.org/?section=status |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| latest_release_date    = {{release date and age|2011|04|09}} <ref name="status" />
| discontinued           = yes
| operating_system       = [[Windows NT family]]
| genre                  = [[Platform virtualization]]
| license                = [[GNU General Public License]]
| website                = {{official url}}
}}
'''Cooperative Linux''', abbreviated as '''coLinux''', is software which allows [[Microsoft Windows]] and the [[Linux kernel]] to run simultaneously in parallel on the same machine.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.colinux.org/ |title=coLinux main website |access-date=2004-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180519164810/http://colinux.org/ |archive-date=2018-05-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Cooperative Linux utilizes the concept of a Cooperative Virtual Machine (CVM). In contrast to traditional [[virtual machine]]s, the CVM shares resources that already exist in the host [[Operating system|OS]]. In traditional VM hosts, resources are virtualized for every (guest) OS. The CVM gives both OSs complete control of the host machine while the traditional VM sets every guest OS in an unprivileged state to access the real machine.