vOS
An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V.
Join the Discord chat (#v-os channel).
Goals
- Keep it simple and easy to understand.
- Write it in V as much as possible.
- Target modern 64-bit architectures and CPU features.
Why?
- Explore V capabilities in bare metal programming.
- Break the compiler as much as possible.
- Build a minimal and useful platform for software [especially written in V :^)], allowing for better control, isolation, and smaller attack surface in VMs.
- Having fun.
Build Instructions
Prerequisites
The following packages need to be installed on the system in order to build vOS: make, git, nasm, meson, ninja, m4, texinfo, gcc/clang, python3, pip3, parted, wget, pkg-config, libuuid, libfuse, and qemu to test it.
For Ubuntu or Debian based distros, the command is:
sudo apt install build-essential git nasm meson m4 texinfo python3 python3-pip parted wget pkg-config uuid-dev libfuse-dev qemu-system-x86
It is necessary to fetch xbstrap from pip3, too.
sudo pip3 install xbstrap
Build commands
To build the distro which includes the cross toolchain necessary to build kernel and ports, run:
make distro
The OS can then be built with make and ran within qemu with make run.
