Feature Request: Demoing SerenityOS in Web Browsers

[boramalper]

There are several (v86, jslinux) virtualization software running entirely in web browsers that can be used to demo SerenityOS without the lengthy installation process.

Before I go ahead and give this a try, I would like to know what the community thinks about the idea. One consideration is the hosting of disk images, which can get bandwidth-intensive depending the on the use (e.g. HN-hug-of-death) and the latency is crucial for the responsiveness of the demo.

This is all assuming that SerenityOS can run on those platforms. :)

[ADKaster]

Well, I know that v86 does not support Serenity because we require PAE support.

copy/v86#299

Which has come up a few times in the past.

As far as hosting pre-made images, that's an explicit non-goal of this project.

[ADKaster]

What do you mean by "lengthy installation process" BTW? It's basically two steps:

1. install required packages (copy paste from docs)
2. Meta/serenity.sh rebuild_world && ./Meta/serenity.sh run

[linusg]

Agree with everything Andrew said. You're of course free to attempt this, which will require hosting your own images.

[boramalper]

What do you mean by "lengthy installation process" BTW? It's basically two steps:

1. install required packages (copy paste from docs)

2. `Meta/serenity.sh rebuild_world && ./Meta/serenity.sh run`

I meant the compilation times, not the complexity of the process.

[copy]

Thanks to @pwmarcz v86 now supports PAE and thus runs SerenityOS reasonably well: https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=serenity

Currently, due to another v86 bug it's stuck to an older version and without networking support, but it's still a cool demo I hope.