HVF operating system

HVF aims to be a hypervisor OS for z/Architecture systems.

It is currently in a very heavy development, and large portions are not yet implemented.

The initial development was done with Hercules, an open source emulator (supporting almost everything z/Architecture has to offer), but since I've gotten a z/VM 5.2 account (thank you Dave Jones), more and more testing and debugging happens on a real mainframe. This makes development easier, and forces me to make sure that it actually works on real hardware :)

All you need is a z/Architecture mainframe or an emulator. HVF determines the size of storage dynamically, however you'll want at least 9MB for the IPL to even succeed. Additionally, a 3215 console should be present as device 0009.

I use Mercurial to maintain the HVF code. You can browse the history at http://hg.31bits.net/hvf/hvf/. (There are also Git mirrors at http://repo.or.cz/w/hvf.git and on GitHub.) You can clone the source via:

$ hg clone http://hg.31bits.net/hvf/hvf/

This program is released under the terms of the General Public License version 2. For more information, refer to the LICENSE file in the source tree, or go to www.gnu.org.

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