Plan 9 filesystem support in GRUB
a project by ptesarik
Updated over 1 year ago. 8 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

Project Description

QEMU can serve host files using the 9P2000 protocol. Xen can serve host files using the 9P2000 protocol. Even WSL2 can serve files using the 9P2000 protocol. This makes it a perfect choice to make your kernel under development in your host environment available to your testing VM, right? Well, almost. GRUB2 cannot boot from a Plan9 filesystem share.

Goal for this Hackweek

Implement 9P2000 for GRUB2 (at least over virtio) and allow booting from a 9P filesystem.

Resources

GRUB2 sources

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Looking for hackers with the skills:

bootloader grub2 virtualization virtio plan9

This project is part of:

Hack Week 23

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    • Comments

    • tlebreux
      over 1 year ago by tlebreux | Reply

      Nice idea, I had started working on a 9p fs kernel driver for https://ares-os.org/ here: https://git.sr.ht/~tomleb/mercury/tree/master/item/p9. Was pretty fun to learn about VirtIO and 9pfs.

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