In a similar vein, wubi-uefi[0] is a fork of the original Wubi project, made to be compatible with newer versions of Ubuntu-based distros and newer versions of Windows. Upside is that it uses the built in Windows bootloader, so you don't have to rebuild it if you want to get rid of Linux. It's incompatible with Bitlocker though.
I remember loopback mounting always gave errors on shutdown when the file system was being unmounted. It seemed to me that it would unmount before caches were flushed, resulting in a need for fsck later (and possibly resulting in corruption or data loss). Do you know if there's been any attempt to address issues like these?
I wrote/donated the code for the original integration with the Windows bootloader for the non-Uefi version. It must have been almost ten years ago, it was even distributed on the official Ubuntu install cd. I didn’t know the project was still around.
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In a similar vein, wubi-uefi[0] is a fork of the original Wubi project, made to be compatible with newer versions of Ubuntu-based distros and newer versions of Windows. Upside is that it uses the built in Windows bootloader, so you don't have to rebuild it if you want to get rid of Linux. It's incompatible with Bitlocker though.
[0]: https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi
I remember loopback mounting always gave errors on shutdown when the file system was being unmounted. It seemed to me that it would unmount before caches were flushed, resulting in a need for fsck later (and possibly resulting in corruption or data loss). Do you know if there's been any attempt to address issues like these?
I wrote/donated the code for the original integration with the Windows bootloader for the non-Uefi version. It must have been almost ten years ago, it was even distributed on the official Ubuntu install cd. I didn’t know the project was still around.
+1 for wubi-uefi, really good there is a fork of the original version and it works perfectly. I just wish it was working with non-Ubuntu based distros