catalyst

I'm trying to make a unikernel. Mostly in Rust, with a bit of assembly.

It's going to be 64 bit, and intended to be run in a VM.

Ideas

Things that might be fun to do:

• Enable SSE/SIMD.
• Teach it to network.
• Teach it to speak SSH (Trussh?)
• Deploy it somewhere.

Resources

I'm reading these resources as I go:

• http://os.phil-opp.com/
• http://intermezzos.github.io/
• https://rajiv256.github.io/projects/ouros/

Please open an issue if you can recommend more!

Dependencies

An Ansible task to install the packages for Arch.

    - name: Install unikernel packages
      package: name={{item}} state=latest
      with_items:
        - rustup
        - nasm
        - grub
        - libisoburn # xorriso
        - mtools # mformat
        - qemu

You'll also need to do:

cargo install xargo
cargo component add rust-src
# Only in this project.
rustup override set nightly

Running

Yes it uses a Makefile right now I'm sorry.

# Build a volume which, when booted, displays glorious error messages.
make iso
# Spawn qemu and display some glorious error messages.
make run