PhantomTestEnvironment

Phantom Test Environment

The pvm_test.exe (pvm_test) program can run Phantom code in usual Windows environment. (Btw, port to unix/X11 is welcome.) It takes the same 'bulk' class bundle as a Phantom kernel and starts code as if it was started by a new OS instance.

Todo:

• It would be great to have GDB networked interface to be able to debug Phantom code with GDB.
• Due to this program internal RGBA bitmap representation is, really, BGRA, which is plain wrong. Win32 display 'driver' has to be redone.
• It would be good to start adding networking to Phantom starting from here. Setup TCP/UDP classes and connect directly to host OS implementation?

The companion pvm_headless.exe (pvm_headless) exist with no graphics support. Internally all the graphics engine still exist, just no display.

Differences

pvm_test is different from real kernel:

• It has no threads. (yet?)
• Not all of kernel interfaces are available (see .internal class sources for details)
• It has no snapshots. Though simply saving object space to file can be added fairly easily.

See INSTALL file in trunk to find out how to setup environment.