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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. You will also find more generic information on the underlying technologies, Phyllome OS itself and the surrounding project.

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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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This is the alpha version of this wiki. {.is-warning}

Install the host Phyllome OS

This section illustrates how to install Phyllome OS on a compatible computer

• Is Phyllome OS right for you?

• Prepare your computer

• Create an installation medium

• Install from the installation medium (default method)

• Post-installation configuration

• ...and more

Deploy guests in the host

This section describes how to deploy common operating systems within Phyllome OS

• Unix-like

  • Install a Linux guest system over the internet
  • Automatically deploy an RPM-based guest system with virt-install and a kickstart file

• Windows NT

  • Install ReactOS
  • Install Windows 11 (to be created)

• Darwin-based

  • Install macOS (to be created)

• ...and more

Go further

This section illustrates specific tasks related to Phyllome OS.

• Use Phyllome as a live system (to test it)
• 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" ↩︎