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Signed-off-by: Takanori Kasai <Kasai.Takanori@jp.fujitsu.com>
author kasai.takanori@jp.fujitsu.com
date Tue Nov 21 09:26:43 2006 +0000 (2006-11-21)
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1 Minimal OS
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4 This shows some of the stuff that any guest OS will have to set up.
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6 This includes:
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8 * installing a virtual exception table
9 * handling virtual exceptions
10 * handling asynchronous events
11 * enabling/disabling async events
12 * parsing start_info struct at start-of-day
13 * registering virtual interrupt handlers (for timer interrupts)
14 * a simple page and memory allocator
15 * minimal libc support
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17 Stuff it doesn't show:
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19 * modifying page tables
20 * network code
21 * block-device code
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24 - to build it just type make.
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26 - to start it do the following in domain0 (assuming xend is running)
27 # xm create domain_config
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29 this starts the kernel and prints out a bunch of stuff and then once
30 every second the system time.