Run xv6 system

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It's the second time to flip the operating system . The whole process is very simple . The operating system I use is Ubuntu Server 18.04.1 LTS 64bit, But according to the official website of the College To guide the There seems to be something wrong with the operation ？ In short, it didn't succeed .

System download

The first is to download the source code , adopt git You can download it directly to

git clone git://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv.git

Component download

But through the bottom operation, we can see , The startup of this operating system actually requires two components .riscv64-unknown-elf-gcc Used to compile the operating system ,qemu-system-riscv64 Used to run the operating system . So the next job is to find these two components .

SiFive This house does RISC-V The manufacturer of , On its website The download page perhaps GitHub release You can see the download of related tools . take GNU Embedded Toolchain and QEMU Download these two components .

You can download it in bin Directory to find the required executable , You can set this directory to the environment variable , Easy to use . Remember not to delete other files . Compilers and virtual machines are running , Will use some of these dynamic libraries .

Operation system

When the above work is completed , To the directory of the source code make You can compile the system , adopt make qemu The command can call the virtual machine to run xv6.