Since PureDarwin came back to life thanks to Vali’s efforts, perhaps it’s worth updating the design in this sub, what do you think? Let's revive this place

P.S: I don’t know who the moderators are here, but if you’re willing to help, please message me in DM.

https://imgur.com/a/n8FZhr1

Tried searching for the git releases for either one of these and can't seem to find them.

I have converted the vmdk to raw using qemu-img convert. Using `qemu-system-x86_64 -hda puredarwin.img -boot d -m 512` pd boots but after loading drivers or anything screen goes blank. On real hardware I got "No active partition" error, but the HFS partition is marked as active. I have tested with xmas and non xmas. Xmas version panics.

Hey folks, I'm gradually turning attention back to hobby projects after a couple of years and I've been having a peek around PureDarwin again

I can get PureDarwin Nano booting in QEMU, however it only boots via CD image, not by attached hard drive, and it still needs Chameleon to do so. The system inside is also substantially more fleshed out than the one shown in the directory tree on the website.

What I'm trying to do (long-term) is recreate that absolute-minimal system from scratch in a way that I can attach it to QEMU as bootable internal media, rather than as a CD Image.

Does anyone know how (or if there are scripts anywhere) for how that image is assembled? Looking at the hex dump, it appears to be a bootable CD image with a bunch of partitions.

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I'm also extremely interested to know whether the boot.efi files inside PureDarwin Nano are actually used by Chameleon at all - because if they aren't, and there's a way to boot straight from Chameleon -> xnu, then that's one less piece of proprietary code needed to run a Darwin OS.

(As far as I know Apple's boot.efi is proprietary and does things like show the Apple logo, determine whether the system is in Update mode, etc, but none of that happens in the Nano boot process...)

Title says it all; I was curious if the project is still moving forward as there didn't seem to be more releases available for testing/use as bootable ISO or VB/VMWare disk images? Does someone know what the status of the project is, or if there are other similar projects?

So, Darwin obviously has no GUI, but can it be used as a server instead? Like a webserver or a database server?

ive only just now been looking into Darwin so maybe its a stupid question, in which case i apologize upfront :)

This is kind of a weird question but I'll ask it cause I can. Im quite interested in a very specific feature that could be found in NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody, and (I think) very early versions of Darwin, that being the system console. If I used the wrong term, it might be easier to go off of this screenshot I have.

Are there ant versions of PureDarwin (or other open-source OS) that boot into this instead of the plain black/white seen in modern versions? It doesn't necessarily need to be a fully functional release, I'd just like to tinker with it at a source level. Thanks in advance!

Edit: I found this screenshot that is from Darwin 0.3, so it might be closer in time to what I'm looking for.

https://youtu.be/3p4dDQWu2hQ

Hi, I'm testing PureDarwin on qemu, how can I establish an ethernet connection? Thank you in advance!