Trying out managarm

The Managarm project provides nightly builds of managarm if you want to try out Managarm without setting up the development environment and building the whole OS yourself.

Nightly builds

The latest nightly build can be downloaded here.

Our build server, named xbbs, the xbstrap build server, which builds all of our packages automatically can be viewed at https://builds.managarm.org.

Running the nightly builds manually

Before running the downloaded nightly build you have to uncompress it.

To run the nightly builds we recommend using QEMU with the following options:

qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -cpu host,migratable=off -device qemu-xhci -device usb-kbd -device usb-tablet -drive id=hdd,file=image,format=raw,if=none -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=hdd -vga vmware -debugcon stdio

Be aware that the -enable-kvm flags works only on systems that support KVM.

If you boot into kmscon (the non graphical environment), or if you issue login from any shell, use the following default credentials to log in.

For the root user, username: root, password: toor. For the Managarm user, username: managarm. password: managarm.

Running nightly builds with extra tooling

We have some extra tooling as part of our bootstrap-managarm repo that may be useful to you. In order to easily obtain an image, you might want to set up a build directory, but download the image instead of building it yourself.

In order to do this, follow the setup steps from the handbook up to the xbstrap init command. After that, you can use xbstrap run get-nightly-image to pull the nightly image, or xbstrap run get-stable-image for the stable one.

In order to run it with our default QEMU configuration, you can use xbstrap run qemu. If you want to use a different configuration when booting managarm, you can use our vm-util.py script. Feel free to explore its options:

../src/scripts/vm-util.py qemu --help