Yes, we use Ubuntu (10.04 and 10.10 should work). We should write some detailed description of the build process in the blog and update the ConfigurationOf, but meanwhile:

To build SqueakNOS from scratch

a) Take the image you want to NOSify, and load into it VMMaker, net and SqueakNOS, in that order from squeaksource.

b) Clone the git repo and place it so you get a squeaknos folder inside your platforms dir. Use a standard VM, not cog nor stack (unless you want to make them work ;).

c) Generate with VMMakerTool. After setting the platforms dir, you'll be able to select squeaknos platform from the list. As path to generation, it must be .../platforms/squeaknos/src32.

d) enter comand line and in squeaknos dir do:

$> make kernel �� #if you are going to copy it into a hard-disk image
or
$> make iso �� �� #if you want a bootable CD image

if you make a kernel only, then you'll probably need to copy the kernel to the vmdk. There is a script for that in scripts dir. It's recommended to have VMWare player installed.

Regards,
���� �� �� �� Javier.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com> wrote:
On 22 March 2011 00:09, Javier Pim��s <elpochodelagente@gmail.com> wrote:
> we use "squeaknos" platform, which is mainly a unix one minus libc with a
> custom makefile. All platform support files are in the git repo, and the
> slang is generated with VMMakerTool selecting squeaknos platform.
>

My question was, should i build it under unix , or can also build
under Mac and Win32?
And is there any instruction about steps how to build it?
I wanna to play with it a little.

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 21 March 2011 17:30, Javier Pim��s <elpochodelagente@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > For all those who may be intrested, we are glad to announce that we have
>> > just uploaded an updated version of SqueakNOS to our site.��You can find
>> > the
>> > updated download links here.
>> > This release adds the following items to the previous version:��(99.9%
>> > modeled with objects)
>> > - Improved support for ATA devices access
>> > - Implementation of a model of files and directories
>> > - Implementation of FAT32 filesystem
>> > - Support for reading sources from the hard disk
>> > - Support for X86 paging setup and handling of page faults
>> > - Implementation of a model of free and used memory
>> > - Implementation of image snapshotting (based on the paging mechanism)
>> > - Based on Pharo, but also supporting Squeak and Cuis
>> > - Added some primitives for communicating between VM and image
>> > - Support for Alien and FFI
>> > - Added basic support for writing to serial via VM so that it's possiblo
>> > to
>> > out debug info to the outside world.
>> > - Added pretty basic ATA benchmarks
>> > - Added some scripts to automatize work done from the outside world
>> > - Many code cleanups
>> > Future directions are:
>> > - Support for Cog VM
>> > - Investigate replacing SqueakNOS plugin with NativeBoost so that we do
>> > more
>> > on the image
>> > - Offloading memory pages to disk
>> > - More tests
>> > - Benchmarks
>> > For the brave ones, remember that you can always generate a SqueakNOS
>> > image
>> > by using the ConfigurationOfSqueakNOS (which is a bit outdated now), or
>> > by
>> > manually loading the packages from monticello. Also to generate a
>> > SqueakNOS
>> > VM download its code from GIT (hosted on��sourceforge.net).
>> > Don't forget to visit��squeaknos.blogspot.com��for news and instructions.
>> > We
>> > hope to be able to write more soon.
>> > Many thank's t all the people who made it possible to understand the
>> > code
>> > and to develop all this.
>> > SqueakNOS' Team
>> >
>>
>> Which platform used to build SqueakNOS VM?
>>

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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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Javier Pim��s
Ciudad de Buenos Aires