Comments on: Building OSKit https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/09/03/building-oskit/ Fun with Virtualization Mon, 21 Oct 2024 05:52:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/09/03/building-oskit/comment-page-1/#comment-258489 Mon, 07 Sep 2020 15:36:56 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10471#comment-258489 In reply to ETC.

I also found the old GRUB documents Making-a-GRUB-bootable-CD_002dROM and made a bootable CD-ROM image: OSKit-hello.iso…

If that matters. It doesn’t do anything fancy just .. Hello World.

]]> By: ETC https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/09/03/building-oskit/comment-page-1/#comment-258483 Sun, 06 Sep 2020 15:30:31 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10471#comment-258483 In reply to neozeed.

Thanks!

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/09/03/building-oskit/comment-page-1/#comment-258477 Sun, 06 Sep 2020 02:27:17 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10471#comment-258477 In reply to ETC.

Not sure why you would want hello world, but here you go:

hello.gz.

I put a pre-compiled oskit in the same directory, oskit-hurd-binary.tar.gz, but it’s just headers, and libraries.

]]> By: ETC https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/09/03/building-oskit/comment-page-1/#comment-258473 Sat, 05 Sep 2020 19:10:33 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10471#comment-258473 Hi, would it be too much to ask for the final executable, so I can run it in qemu?

]]> By: Random https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/09/03/building-oskit/comment-page-1/#comment-258466 Fri, 04 Sep 2020 21:20:27 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10471#comment-258466 I think the problem wasn’t that it was too far ahead of it’s time; but that it’s drivers were too quickly outdated.

I remember playing with this on FreeBSD 4.3 or 4.4 and at that time they had already just gotten over an issue with booting on hard drives larger than 8 gigabytes (if memory serves -and it may not).

I’m not saying the whole oskit was out of date; but that enough of it was that it didn’t seem to live up to it’s promise.

Also it didn’t seem to be being updated; I was disappointed but not surprised when it wound up not being developed after 03 or 04

]]> By: name https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/09/03/building-oskit/comment-page-1/#comment-258460 Fri, 04 Sep 2020 08:03:54 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10471#comment-258460 This seems to bear a passing resemblance to how Genode Labs is approaching creating the Genode Framework (see genode.org). It uses particular, ported components from various operating systems (OpenBSD’s sndio, Linux’s wpa_supplicant, NetBSD’s rump ext2) as a way to get up and running quickly. Their approach was to decide on a common interface, which in this case is C++ and XML based, and make various “components” interact with each other that way.

Instead of being an OS itself, the base has been written multiple times to run atop various kernels, with a preference towards microkernels, or on hardware, currently only ARM is being worked on. Which is why they call it a framework.

So the ideas of being able to use other software merely as building blocks to construct whatever system you desire continues to this day. 🙂

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