Running

QEMU on Windows or Linux

cd $(PHANTOM_HOME)
cd run
./phantom.sh or phantom.cmd

This will start Phantom in a usual way - it will pick up prevoius start's snapshot if possible.

If you need (and you often will) to start 'from a green field', run phantom_clean.sh/cmd instead.

QEMU on MacOS

phantom.sh:

USB="-usb -usbdevice mouse"
VIO="-drive file=vio.img,if=virtio,format=raw"
Q_PORTS="-parallel file:lpt_01.log  -serial file:serial0.log"
Q_NET="-net user -tftp tftp -net nic,model=pcnet"
Q_MACHINE=""
Q_DISKS="-boot a -no-fd-bootchk -fda img/grubfloppy.img -hda snapcopy.img -hdb phantom.img"
Q_VGA="-vga std"

rm serial0.log.old
mv serial0.log serial0.log.old

/opt/local/bin/qemu $Q_VGA $Q_KQ $Q_MACHINE $Q_PORTS  $Q_DISKS  $Q_NET $VIO $USB

Real hardware

You will need some FAT/ext3/other disk GRUB can live on. Install GRUB on that disk.

Take files from run/fat/boot, place 'em to /boot directory on disk.

Have some other disk/partition formatted as Phantom disk. See zero_ph_img.sh to find out how. In short, you just need to put a copy of Phantom disk superblock into the 16-th 4096 byte block.

dd conv=nocreat conv=notrunc bs=4096 count=1 seek=16 if=img/phantom.superblock of=phantom.img

Phantom sends kernel log into serial port, it can help to find out what's wrong if kernel dies.

See also Making bootable image with grub2

Bytecode execution without Phantom kernel

It is easy to test phantom language compiler and virtual machine without starting Phantom kernel. In phantom/vm directory there is pvm_test.exe and pvm_headless.exe (Windows) or pvm_headless (Unix) executable files that run reduced Phantom bytecode virtual machine.