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The Phyllome OS wiki

Welcome!

In this wiki, you will find guides about how to install, use and hack Phyllome OS, as well as more generic information on the underlying technologies, Phyllome OS itself and the surrounding project.

Phyllome¹ OS is an operating system that makes it easier to run various operating systems locally using off-the-shelf hardware and virtualization technologies.

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Deploy

This section is meant to help users install Phyllome OS.

• Is Phyllome OS right for you?
• Prepare your computer
• Create an installation medium
• Install from a USB flash drive (default method)
• ...and more

Get started

This section is meant to introduce how to use Phyllome OS in a general way.

• Use it as a live system (to test it)
• Use it as an installed system (for daily use)

Go further

Guest operating systems

This section illustrates how to deploy supported guests and further optimize them.

• Use netboot.xyz to deploy a Linux guest
• Unattended deployment of a RPM-based guest using a kickstart file
• Install Windows using an ISO file
• ...and more

The host operating system

This section illustrates how to execute certain tasks related to Phyllome OS.

• Perform a few checks on Phyllome OS
• Resize an existing disk
• ...and more

References

This section provides information about technologies used by Phyllome OS.

• Guest support
• Linux Kernel modules related to virtualization
• Paravirtualized hardware (virtio)
• Lexicon
• ...and more

About Phyllome OS

This section describes the context around Phyllome OS and its design.

• Context
• Purpose
• Use cases
• ...and more

About the project

This section describes the project around Phyllome OS.

• How to contribute
• How to join
• Current infrastructure

Public presence

• The website: https://phyllo.me
• This wiki: https://wiki.phyllo.me
• The issue board: https://kanboard.phyllo.me
• The public forum: https://forum.phyllo.me
• GitHub's repositories: https://github.com/PhyllomeOS

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1. According to the Wiktionary, Phyllome refers to the "foliar part of a plant; any organ homologous with a leaf, or [any organ] produced by metamorphosis of a leaf" ↩︎