Hi Nicolai,
A very good source is Mariano Martinez Peck's excellent blog. He posted extensively on building a VM, managing plugins, pretty cover all aspects.
If you want to take a look, his journey begins here:�http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/journey-through-the-vm/

I found it really good and enlightener.
best
Nacho


Lic. Ignacio Sniechowski, MBA







On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess@web.de> wrote:
Looking at the code for DiskStore>>basicEntryAt:
I find this code:
"Primitives lookupDirectory: encodedPath filename: encodedBasename)"
What is this "Primitives" not a class? I am suprised there is some code
that I can not find the source for.

Ok, it has something to do with vm primitives, and I know that code like
<primitive: 'primitiveDirectoryEntry' module: 'FilePlugin'>
is in the vmmaker-package for FilePlugin.

BTW it is terrible hard to load vmmaker in a "normal" image. Now I use
the generator.image from pharo http://files.pharo.org/vm/src/.
But even in this image it is not possible to load the vmmaker tool.