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Phyllome OS wiki

Welcome to the Phyllome OS wiki!

In this wiki, you will find guides about how to install, use and hack Phyllome OS, as well as more general information about open-source virtualization and the project behind this specialized OS.

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Phyllome OS is not production-ready. {.is-warning}

Phyllome OS is an operating system that makes it easier to run various guest systems locally using off-the-shelf hardware.

Deploy

This section is meant to help users prepare their computers to host Phyllome OS, pick the version that will suit their needs, understand Phyllome OS' limitations, and install it.

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

Get started

This section is meant to introduce uses of 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

This section is meant to introduce the execution of particular taks on Phyllome OS, including deployment of certain guest systems. Some of these tasks will be rendered obsolete with newer Phyllome OS versions.

Tasks related to Phyllome OS

• Perform a few checks on Phyllome OS
• Configure the Virtual Machine Manager manually or automatically
• Install a guest system using netboot.xyz
• ...and more

Tasks related to your guest OS

Although Phyllome OS strives to choose defaults that will work for many guest systems, further optimizations may be needed.

• Linux family
• Darwin family
• Windows NT family
• ...and more

About Phyllome OS

In this section, the context around Phyllome OS is explained and its internals are described

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

On open-source virtualization

In this section, the focus is on KVM virtualization and its associated tools, including QEMU, the Linux kernel, libvirt, etc., mostly in the context of Phyllome OS.

• Anatomy of a virtual machine
• Lexicon
• External resources
• ...and more

The Phyllome OS Project

Contribute

• How to join
• Current infrastructure

Public presence

• The website: https://phyllo.me
• The wiki: https://wiki.phyllo.me
• The issue board: https://kanboard.phyllo.me/
• GitHub repositories: https://github.com/PhyllomeOS