Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:11:05 -0800 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: using FreeBSD to create a completely new OS Message-ID: <20121210081105.92F23B827@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:48:12 EST." <CAGBxaX=y9yLBymKX8Psmer0sPFWCgAFy3gs%2BtgU7waQt2g6hKA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGBxaX=y9yLBymKX8Psmer0sPFWCgAFy3gs%2BtgU7waQt2g6hKA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:48:12 EST Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
> For personal hobby reasons I want to write an OS completely from
> scratch (due to some aspects of the design no existing OS is a
> suitable starting place)... what I mean is I want to start with the
> MBR (boot0) and go on from there... I only have one *REAL* machine to
> work with which means I need to work with something like
> emulators/virtualbox-ose... I also want to do as many automated tests
> as possible (for example seeing if the installer copied the MBR [and
> later other stuff] correctly to the virtual HDD).... for this reason I
> have a few questions on vb (or perhaps QEMU if not possible in vb):
>
> 1. Can it be scripted?
> 2. Is there any documentation on the various virtual HDD formats and
> such (that way I can check the "physical" drive and not by indirect
> query)?
>
> Also can people give me some idea of a good general
> development/testing framework.... the one I have in mind so far is:
You may wish to check out
http://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page
http://wiki.osdev.org/Projects
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