VMM Technical Manual

A virtual machine monitor for the Intel 80386

• Introduction
• The Initialisation Process
  • Boot Loader
    • Determining Media Characteristics
      • Hard Disk Media
      • Floppy Disk Media
    • Loading The Loader
  • System Check
  • Loading The Kernel
  • Setting Hardware To A Known State
  • Setting Up Page Tables
  • Setting Up Descriptor Tables
  • Entering Protected Mode
  • 32-bit Setup
• System Types
• The Kernel
  • Modules
    • Using Modules
    • The Module Structure
    • Creating Modules
    • Module Files
    • Statically Linked Modules
    • The Kernel Module
  • Interrupts
    • Disabling Interrupts
    • Interrupt Handlers
    • Queued Interrupt Handlers
  • Exception Handling
  • Memory Management
    • Types Of Addresses
    • System Memory Map
    • Segment Functions
    • Page Allocation
    • Page Tables
    • The Page Fault Handler
  • Dynamic Memory Allocation
  • Task Handling
    • The Task Structure
    • Task Creation and Deletion
    • The Scheduler
    • Task Preemption
    • Task Lists
    • Semaphores
  • Time And Date Handling
  • Timers
  • DMA Handling
  • Error Codes
  • Formatted Output
• Device Drivers
  • Generic Block Device Support
  • The Floppy Disk Driver
    • Floppy Filing System Interface
    • Floppy Function And Queue handling
    • FDC Low Level Routines
  • The Hard Disk Driver
    • Generic Hard Disk Handling
    • The IDE Driver
  • The Ramdisk Device
  • Video Drivers
    • Using Virtual Adaptors
    • Video Modes
    • Virtualisation Details
    • Implementing New Video Types
    • The VGA Functions
  • Keyboard Driver
    • Keyboard Overview
    • Raw Keyboards
    • Cooked Keyboards
  • TTY Driver
    • Opening And Closing TTYs
    • The Foreground TTY
    • TTY Output
    • TTY Input
• Virtual Devices
  • Virtual Machines
    • Overview
    • Creating Virtual Machines
    • Virtual I/O Ports
    • Slots
    • Kill Handlers
    • Fault Handling
      • The GPE Handler
      • The Page Fault Handler
      • The Invalid Opcode Handler
    • Arpl Handlers
    • The Virtual A20 Gate
  • Virtual Device Structure
  • Launching Virtual Machines
  • The Virtual PIC
  • The Virtual PIT
  • Virtual DMA Controller
  • Virtual BIOS
  • Virtual CMOS
  • Virtual Floppy
  • Virtual IDE
  • Virtual Keyboard
  • Virtual Printer Ports
• The Filing System
  • Introduction
  • File Names
  • Filesystem Structure
  • File Handling
    • File Handles
    • File Input and Output
    • Hard Links
    • Symbolic Links
    • Other File Operations
  • Directory Handling
  • Device Handling
  • The Buffer Cache
  • Library Functions
• The Shell
  • Basics
  • Online Help
  • Adding New Commands
  • Adding Commands With The Kernel
  • Output
• The Debugger
  • x
  • poke
  • dis
  • dgdt
  • dtss
  • dr
  • d
  • strsrch
• System Log Daemon
  • Introduction
  • Operation
  • Functions
    • Opening The Log
    • Closing The Log
    • Writing To The Log
    • Controlling The Logging
    • Status Of The Log Daemon
    • Example Function Usage
• Printer Spooler
  • Spooler Introduction
  • Spooler Operation
  • Spooler Functions
    • Adding A File To The Spooler
    • Using The Spooler As A Printer
    • Example Function Usage
• Utility Functions
  • String And Memory Functions
  • Doubly Linked List Type
  • I/O Functions
  • Debugging Output
• Development Environment
  • System Tools
  • Compiling The System
• Bibliography
• Index of Functions, Macros and Variables
• Index of Data Types
• Subject Index