VulcanOS is a x86 monolithic kernel written in C from scratch following the UNIX philosophy. This project is just a student learning tool to know more about operating systems, do not expect nothing more than a toy.

VulcanOS running under QEMU

Installation

Requirements

Before building this project you need to setup a cross compiler. Also install the following packages:

nasm
bochs
grub
mtools(only for Arch Linux)

After that, you can build VulcanOS just by running the commands below:

Type make all to compile the system and to create an ISO file;
Type make run to start it in QEMU or make bochs to start it with bochs.

You can also find an ISO file here(md5sum: 11375e1e169069b85c14d3cb6c5a4f06)

Features

Right now, VulcanOS supports the following features:

VGA driver
Interrupts
PIC & PIT driver
PS/2 driver
Heap
Paging
VFS driver
Usermode

License

VulcanOS is released under GPLv3, you can obtain a copy of this license by cloning this repository or by visiting this page.