Hi,

I stumbled upon HelenOS just a few days ago, and i would say i was quite
surprised that i didn't know about it before. I went through the website
and wiki pages and tried to collect as much information about it as
possible. I have contributed to MINIX 3 before, so i found a sense of
familiarity here. But after coming from POSIX background, i found
poking/experimenting in the HelenOS (running in kvm) quite challenging. I
may have missed some useful information in the wiki pages, but here are
some very beginner level problems that i would like to get help in getting
started with HelenOS as soon as possible:

1. How to shutdown the running OS ?
I couldn't find shutdown/halt or any command similar to it!

2. How to install the OS ?
Till now, i have been running it like this:
`kvm -net user -net nic -m 256 -cdrom HelenOS-0.4.3-ia32.iso`
So, when i create a file, kill kvm, and again run HelenOS, the file is not
present anymore which is very logical. Ideally, i should have done this:
`kvm-img create HelenOS.img; kvm -net user -net nic -m 256 -cdrom
HelenOS-0.4.3-ia32.iso -hda HelenOS.img -boot d`
and, then installed OS on HelenOS.img somehow. How to do that ? Or, am i
completely on the wrong track ?

3. How do you write code in HelenOS ? Which tools/IDE you use ? Is 'edit'
the only available editor ?

4. Does ssh server/client run in HelenOS ? If it does, then i can easily
mount the whole filesystem somewhere else using sshfs and do a whole lot of
work very easily.


Thanks,
Vivek Prakash
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