Greetings Norman
I hope that your holidays are going well.
I have been able, with the help of your wonderful guidance, to get the seoul-fancy booted with Genode and the launchpad to show.
On the launchpad, there was only a "testinit" link in blue but it only opened a blank window and did not boot tinycore-linux for some reason.
dd if=var/run/seoul-fancy.iso of=/dev/your_usb_stick_device bs=1M
The scenario will show Genode's launchpad, where you can start a virtual machine by clicking on the blue text labeled "init". A new window will appear with Tinycore Linux booting. Given that your machine is connected to the internet (and a DHCP server is running on your network), you can even browse the net using Firefox.
You can start a second Linux instance by clicking on the "init" button again.
Additionally, I have not been able to locate the seoul-fancy.iso yet, although I am guessing that the "make run/seoul-fancy" creates the iso and pipes it through qemu.
In this scenario, each virtual machine is just a regular node of Genode's process tree, subjected to the same rigid security regime as in effect for all processes of the Genode system.
One thing that I did like in the NOVA demo v0.3 livecd was the base interface. On that demo (NUL 2011.2), it showed, in a text screen, something like:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NUL 2011.2
LWin+<arrow> navigates between screens .....
+--------------+ 2 | boot | +--------------+
+--------------+ +----------+ 1 | HV | | VM | +--------------+ +----------+
+--------------+ +==========+ +----------+ 0 | Manager | | Tutorial | | VMM | +--------------+ +==========+ +----------+ 0 1 2
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
with this scenario I can just use the "LWin+<arrow> or LWin+<F1-F12> to navigate the the VMM of interest and start a VM as needed. This approach lets me flip to the desired NUL "console" which I think is very nice for what I would like to accomplish initially.
What I would like to have is the something like this but using Genode instead with perhaps something similar to the launchpad.
I think that I am off to a great start and will continue to investigate Genode and NOVA as they very exciting and offer a lot of possibilities.