Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system

Re:Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system by steveklabnik on Monday July 23, 2018 @10:49AM (#17593128)

It doesn't compile on Windows though, which is a bummer: some of the files have names like COM, which are reserved.

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Re:Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system by 0culus on Monday July 23, 2018 @11:15AM (#17593298)

Both my undergrad and grad OS courses used xv6 and I can tell you that the easiest way to get hacking on it is to spin up a VM (I used vagrant for this since I just wanted headless) and run it in QEMU. MIT has a patched version available that has some handy debug features. Feel free to contact me through keybase and I can provide you all the scripts I used.

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Re:Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system by steveklabnik on Monday July 23, 2018 @11:24AM (#17593349)

Thank you! In the end, the source is so easy to read that I didn't actually need to build it all that much, but if I ever do, I'll get in touch :)

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Re:Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system by nine_k on Monday July 23, 2018 @11:33AM (#17593425)

Compile it in a linux / bsd VM, too.

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Re:Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system by int_19h on Monday July 23, 2018 @09:58PM (#17597550)

WSL does the trick on Windows.

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