lisp-on-xen

A port of Kernighan & Ritchie's 1988 LISP interpretation to barebones Xen (as a stub domain).

This is a very rough implementation, it is clearly not fit for production use! Despite this, it may serve as a reasonable example of how to implement small stub domains.

Usage

• Move everything into the stubdom directory of a Xen source tree. (Note: this will destroy anything you may already have in your c stubdom!)
• Optionally, apply no-printk.patch in extras/mini-os/console/. This will remove a lot of (unnecessary and ugly) console output at startup. Be aware that this will affect (and possibly break) other stubdoms.
• Run make c-stubdom from the stubdom directory.
• Create a new DomU with mini-os-x86_64-c/domain_config.
• Have fun! Double tap escape to shutdown the instance.

Future Work

None planned, this is only intended to be a demo.

Known Issues

• If you are using a processor arch that is not x86_64, you will need to change the name of the mini-os-x86_64-c directory accordingly.