Support for booting more guest operating systems
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enhancement
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- Dominant language
- C
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- Forks
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Description
Linux is the only “first class” operating system supported at the moment. FreeBSD does boot, but requires running the installer and so isn’t as seamless.
UEFI support exists (#10) to add UEFI BIOS support to boot Windows, OpenBSD, or NetBSD, but this requires more testing.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading issue #10 on UEFI support and comparing the current Linux and FreeBSD boot paths described here. Determine which guest operating systems and boot flows are in scope, then verify that each targeted system boots without requiring a manual installer and that the required testing is documented.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100