LaylaOS is (almost) self hosting

[mohammedisam]

Hi all,

I wanted to post an update on my hobby OS. The latest version is almost self hosting, in the sense that everything from the kernel to 3rd party software ports can be downloaded, built and tested directly from within the OS, up to and including the creation of an ISO image. I still need to port efibootmgr and libefivars in order to be able to create bootable disk images though.

This version includes the following updates:

• Support for loopback devices.

• Support for FAT12/16 and VFAT filesystems.

• Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP).

• More ported software, including GRUB and xorriso.

The latest version (0.0.3) can be downloaded from my GitHub repo.

Please feel free to test it out, and I appreciate any feedback, comments or bug reports.

Cheers,

Mo

[ell1e]

That seems quite mind-blowing! I looked around the github repo, I couldn't find any info whether you tested this outside of an emulator. Would it run on any generic x64 bare metal machines at all, or is that a future plan?

[mohammedisam]

Hi ell1e and many thanks for your reply!

I haven't tested it on real hardware yet -- I am planning on testing it on my old Dell core i5 laptop, I just wanted to run a few more tests on my VFS layer but I think I'm now ready to test things on baremetal. Will post updates on the process as I go!

Cheers,

Mo