Live-CD images
Genode Live Demonstration 2008-10
The Genode Live Demonstration 2008-10 presents some of most fundamental concepts of the Genode architecture in an interactive way via an integrated GUI. The demonstration is meant to give you a conception of how a Genode-based OS works and what the benefits of the approach are.
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genode-2008-10.iso (3MB)
System requirements
The ISO image is tested on Qemu, VirtualBox. So we recommend using one of these platforms for trying out the live demo.
Qemu
To boot the ISO image with Qemu, simply issue the following command:
qemu -cdrom genode-2008-10.iso
You can toggle the full-screen mode of Qemu via Crtl-'Alt'-'F' and release the grabbed mouse by pressing Crtl-'Alt'. If you have problems to reach the bottem right corner with your mouse, retry starting Qemu with mouse acceleration disabled (xset m 1).
VirtualBox
To boot the ISO image on VirtualBox, create a new virtual machine, set the OS type to L4, configure the machine to have 64MB of memory, and leave the hard-disk configuration blank. Then specify the genode-2008-10.iso as CD image and start the virtual machine. You should see the graphical user interface of Genode within less than 10 seconds.
We have observed rare boot problems of the L4/Fiasco kernel on VirtualBox. If you observe a hick up while booting, please try restarting your virtual machine.
Native PC hardware
For running the live demo on a native PC, make sure that your machine satisfies the following requirements:
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i686 CPU
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64MB of memory
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PS/2 mouse and keyboard (USB input devices are not supported, yet)
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VESA 2.0 compliant graphics card
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Monitor that is capable of displaying a 1024x768 resolution
Burn the ISO image onto a CD, configure your BIOS to boot from CD-ROM, and reboot your machine with the CD inserted.
Known issues
The Genode Live Demonstration 2008-10 uses the L4/Fiasco kernel. The used version of this kernel has known stability problems concerning the destruction of threads. You may observe this problem when destructing large sub systems.
