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.