Ziggurat

Ziggurat is a work-in-progress kernel for x86-64 machines. Currently, it can load a static elf file and run it in userspace.

Building

Ziggurat uses Nix to manage the build environment. Enter the nix environment with nix develop or use enable direnv for the Ziggurat directory. Ziggurat uses make to build, use make with the appropriate target.

Build targets

• ziggurat.iso This target builds the ziggurat ISO image. This .iso can be used to boot on real hardware with dd if=ziggurat.iso of=/dev/my_flash_drive_here.
• run-kvm-uefi This target creates a qemu virtual machine using kvm to run Ziggurat.
• run-gdb-uefi This target creates a qemu virtual machine to run Ziggurat. The virtual machine waits for a connection from gdb before starting.
• run-uefi This target creates a qemu virtual machine to run Ziggurat.