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| title | description | published | date | tags | editor | dateCreated |
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| Get started with Phyllome OS | true | 2021-11-23T11:30:37.947Z | markdown | 2021-11-13T11:37:31.498Z |
How to use Phyllome OS daily
This section explains the "Phyllome OS way of doing things", what you need to do to further configure it, and how to deploy your favorite operating system within it.
Understand the Phyllome OS philosophy
Phyllome OS has one goal: to let users bring their favorite operating system and to run them well. Eventually, users should be able to reach the state of virtual enlightenment (tm), and stop worrying about the fact that their favorite operating system is running inside a virtual machine, just as humans should stop worrying about living in a computer simulation (perhaps?).
By definition, the host, Phyllome OS, is trying to be as discrete as possible, so that users won't actually have to spend much time to manage it. Users should be able to spend their time using their favorite personal computing environment, rather than messing around with Phyllome OS itself.1
However, if the host is meant to be a great place for guest operating systems to thrive, it is up to the user to manage the lifecycle of their guest operating system. Phyllome OS provides an optimized virtual machine model tuned to host modern operating systems, but, at the exception of some RPM-based guests operating systems including Phyllome OS itself, does not intent to provide automated ways to deploy guest operating systems (at the moment Infrastructure as code solutions or instance initialization software like cloud-init do not seem generic enough to satisfy every modern desktop-based operating systems' idiosyncrasies).
In other words, contrary to end-to-end operating systems like Qubes OS or the upcoming Spectrum, which are offering ready to use templates or/and applications isolated in virtual machines by default, Phyllome OS delegates to end-users the task to install their favorite operating system, while trying to provide the best possible underlying defaults for each operating system. In this regard, its model is closer to Promox, which doesn't make assumptions about how an operating system will be deployed.
Post-installation configuration
After Phyllome OS has been successfully installed and the first-launch is process is done, a few tasks are required before it can be used to its fullest potential.
As Phyllome OS evolves, one of the main goal is to shorten the time it would take for an end-user to have a fully operational virtual machine loaded with the installer of their favorite operating system, to the point that a user may not see the Phyllome OS Desktop environnement at all. {.is-info}
Post-installation scripts
What to do next
- Create a virtual machine
- manually, using
virt-manager(default) - automatically, using
virt-install(for power users)
- manually, using
- Install your favorite guest operating system inside this virtual machine
- manually, using the installer provided by the editor of your favorite operating system
- automatically, using a kickstart file, for compatible guest systems
- Learn how to make the most out of it
Are you looking for tasks to do with your system? If so, have a look at doing some of the suggested tasks