Hyper-OS

Hyper-OS(HOS) is an Operating System Simulator for teaching and research use. It contains basic virtual hardwares (such as CPU, APIC, MMU, etc) and a tiny kernel. Different from other teaching OSes, Hyper-OS is not running on a real machine, so that it's easy enough for students without hardware knowledges. HOS can show the principle of interrupt, paging, memory allocation, process scheduling and symmetrical multi-processing by writing simple user-time programs.

Build

Linux

Requirements

• Python3
• python3-pip
• CMake >= 3.1
• GNU Make

Get dependencies with python-pip

Install dependencies with the following command:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Compile hos kernel

Compile HOS using CMake and GNU make

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
cd ..
cp build/bin/hos bin/hos

the binary file is located in bin/hos.

Run the kernel

Just run the entry.py script, and have fun:

python3 entry.py

Windows

Requirements

• Python3
• python3-pip
• CMake >= 3.1
• Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio 2019

Notes:

• Remember to add python to PATH

Get dependencies with python-pip

Install dependencies with the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Compile hos kernel

Generate the Visual Studio Solution using cmake in PowerShell:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

Then you need to compile HOS using Visual Studio. You may need to copy the executable file generated to bin/hos.

Run the kernel

Just run the entry.py script, and have fun:

python entry.py