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Joel Nider edited this page Dec 4, 2013 · 6 revisions

You want to see what it does, but you don't want to mess up your existing system

The easiest way to accomplish this is to run it in a virtual machine. Luckily, today virtualization software is free and easy to use. Personally, I like to use Virtualbox. You could also use Bochs or QEMU as well, and probably many others that I haven't tried.

  1. Install Virtualbox which you can find here - it's good for building the source if you don't have a Linux machine handy, as well as running Dominos later on.
  2. Build the kernel by following these instructions
  3. Generate the ISO image by running 'make' from the root directory. This will create dominos.iso, which you can now burn to a real CD or load in a virtual machine.
  4. Configure a new machine in Virtualbox that uses the ISO image as a CD, or boot off a real CD if you so desire
  5. Run it!

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