Velox OS

Velox is a work in process minimal Operating System built in Rust as a hobby project for low level systems engineering (in Rust).

With thanks to the guide at phil-opp.com. I hope to turn this project into a more fleshed out OS for funsies, beyond the start-up topics from the linked blog! :)

mit.edu also has some great resources for basic OS dev!

Building

To build, we use the bootloader crate (pinned to v0.9) and running cargo bootimage from within the project crate. See requirements for installation instructions.

After executing cargo bootimage, there should be a bootable image at /target/x86_64-velox/*/bootimage-velox.bin.

To run (assisted, ensure qemu installed): cargo run.

To run (un-assisted): qemu-system-x86_64 -drive format=raw,file=target/x86_64-velox/debug/bootimage-velox.bin.

Requirements

• rustup override set nightly
• rustup component add rust-src
• rustup component add llvm-tools-preview
• Install QEMU:
  • MacOS: brew install qemu
• (from outside the cargo project) cargo install bootimage