Follow steps to setup necessary dependencies for developing xv6 OS. Find the respective implentations in the branches of the same repository.

• 1_startup_process - Boot Rom and Bootloader
• 2_vitual_mem_mngt - Process Memory Management
• 3_user_thread_mngt - User-Level Thread Management
• 4_trap_emulate_virtualization - Trap and Emulate Virtualization

Please reach out to the TAs if you have any installation issues.

1. Navigate to the install/linux-wsl folder
2. Install RISC-V QEMU: ./linux-qemu.sh
3. Install RISC-V toolchain:./linux-toolchain.sh
4. Add installed binaries to path: source .add-linux-paths

1. Navigate to the install/mac folder
2. Install RISC-V QEMU: ./mac-qemu.sh
3. Install RISC-V toolchain: ./mac-toolchain.sh
4. Add installed binaries to path: source .add-mac-paths

1. Navigate back to main folder and clone the xv6 OS using

    git clone https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv.git
   

2. Navigate to xv6-riscv and run make qemu

1. While running linux-qemu.sh, if you run into ERROR: glib-2.48 gthread-2.0 is required to compile QEMU, then :

• Run this command in the terminal. sudo apt install libglib2.0-dev. This is caused due to a newer version of your linux distro(link).

2. linux-qemu.sh : ../meson.build:328:2: ERROR: Dependency "pixman-1" not found, tried pkgconfig

• Can be resolved by running sudo apt install libpixman-1-dev (link)

Thankful to the xv6 team at MIT for their open-source codebase.