Hikari OS

Hikari OS is a hobby operating system for the x86_64 architecture, written completely from scratch.

Building and running

Requirements

The build process of the Hikari OS requires a UNIX-like environment. These are the tools needed:

• Python 3
• SCons
• GNU Make
• GNU Coreutils
• GCC / Clang
• NASM
• QEMU (for running)
• Bochs (for debugging)

Instructions

None of the build process steps require root provileges.

$ toolchain/install.sh
$ scons -j 4
$ make image

To run the built image, execute one of the following commands:

$ make qemu         # Run QEMU without KVM.
$ make qemu-kvm     # Run QEMU with KVM.
$ make bochs        # Debug the system.

Project layout

• boot - bootloader
• logs - runtime output
• tools - various scripts and programs used to build the operating system

License

Horizon Operating System is distributed under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.