Next: Ten Step Process
Getting Started with the x-kernel
Larry L. Peterson
Januay 1996
This note describes the procedures that should be followed to install,
configure, build, and run the x-kernel as a user-level Unix process. It
purposely focuses on a vanilla system. To understand all the options
available to you, consult the x-kernel Programmer's Manual
[1]. We assume the following throughout the rest of
this note.
- You will be installing the x-kernel in directory /usr/xkernel,
and this directory is reachable (via NSF, for example) from all machines
on which you want to run the x-kernel . You may choose some root directory
other than /usr/xkernel. If you do select another root directory,
change the steps given below accordingly.
- You will be running the x-kernel on a pair of Solaris (Sparc)
workstations connected by an Ethernet. We will refer to these two
machines as machine A and machine B in the following discussion.
If you are building the x-kernel on some other Unix platform---Linux (on
x86), SunOS (on Sparc), IRIX (on SGI), or OSF/1 (on Alpha)---then
substitute linux, sunos, irix, or osf1 for
solaris, respectively, in the steps that follow.
Larry Peterson
Wed Feb 21 14:00:42 MST 1996