Manticore is a research operating system to explore parakernels.
Manticore is a clean-slate research operating system, written in the Rust programming language, with the aim of exploring the parakernel OS architecture.
Please refer to the project homepage for more information.
First, install the toolchain, which includes rustup
, Rust, and other dependencies:
./scripts/install-toolchain
Now that you have the toolchain installed, you can build Manticore with:
make
The build system generates a kernel.iso
image, which you can launch under QEMU with:
$ ./scripts/run kernel.iso
For more information, see Manticore Hacker's Guide.
Once kernel.elf
is built, you can build an user space echo server with:
$ make -C usr/echod
and launch it under QEMU with:
$ ./scripts/run --publish 7777/udp usr/echod/echod.iso
You can now communicate with the echo server with:
$ nc -u4 localhost 7777
hello
hello
- Legacy-free PC with a 64-bit x86 processor
- xAPIC2 interrupt controller
- MSI-X interrupt delivery
- PCIe 3.0 bus
- VirtIO network device
Manticore's code is structured into different directories as follows:
arch
: machine architecture specific codedrivers
: device driverskernel
: kernel services (e.g., process scheduling and system calls)lib
: support librariesmm
: memory management (e.g., virtual memory manager and kernel dynamic memory allocator)usr
: user space libraries and example applications
- Pekka Enberg, Ashwin Rao, and Sasu Tarkoma. 2019. I/O Is Faster Than the CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate (Most) OS Abstractions. HotOS '19
If you have questions or comments, please join the Manticore Slack! Bug reports and pull requests are also welcome!
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms. See Code of Coduct for details.
See also the list of contributors who contributed to this project.
Licensed under either of these:
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution you intentionally submit for inclusion in the work, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual-licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.