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I took a brief look at redox, which isn't a super serious project, and noticed that they were at that point only set up to run as a virtual machine. No actual

I took a brief look at redox, which isn't a super serious project, and noticed that they were at that point only set up to run as a virtual machine. No actual hardware supported. I'm sure this was for expediency in their case... But then I thought, why not? It seems kind of antiquated for a server os to worry about actual hardware in this day and age. Funny how things turn out.

adrianN 8y ago
That's pretty much how every OS is developed at least since QEMU was made. Why would you risk wrecking actual hardware with your toy OS and go through a code->compile->install->reboot cycle to test?
jononor 8y ago
Yeah, its a lot of work to make an HAL with support for all desirable platforms. Just use Linux with KVM and the virtualized devices become the HAL, best-in-class hardware support already included.