OS Circular

OS Circular

OS Circular is a framework of Internet Disk Image Distributor for anonymous OSes.

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Manual	OS Circular Guide (PDF), OS Circular Japanese Guide (PDF)
LiveCD	OSCircularLiveCD-20090512.iso (based on Debian Live 57MB KVM+LBCAS) SHA1: 9aab220b7155e3feba137222fcfe34f33bf68c0a
LiveUSB (install image)	OSCircularLiveUSB-Image-20090323.tar.gz SHA1: 42f3093c84315b8efb8799d7be96483aa1895405 (based on Debian Live)
Debian/Ubuntu Packages	httpstoraged_1.1-3_i386.deb , Source Code: httpstoraged-1.1.tar.gz(Driver for LBCAS) httpfusevm-scripts_0.1-7_all.deb , Source Code: httpfusevm-scripts-0.1.tar.gz (Scripts for OS Circular) mksha1files_1.0-1_i386.deb , Source Code: mksha1files-1.0.tar.gz (Block File Creation Tool)
Mac OS	Soon
Windows	Soon

Transferable OS (weekly updated)

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic	20091109 -
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty	20090508 - 20091030
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid	20081107 - 20090501
Debian 5.0 Lenny	20081107 -

News

Techinical dital is presented at Linux Symposium 2009 (Montreal, Canada)
- "Effect of readahead and file system block reallocation for LBCAS (LoopBack Content Addressable Storage)"
- Slide-PDF, Paper-PDF (Proccedings of the Linux Symposium 2009, page 275-286)
LiveCD for OS Circular is released.
Bootable USB image for OS Circular and Debian packages are released.
- Transferred OSes are Ubuntu/Debian GNU Linux which are updated every week from 03/Oct/2008. The disk image is transferred by LBCAS (LoopBack Content Addressable Storage) which is a kind of Internet Virtual Disk. They will boot on KVM, Xen and QEMU.
- OS Circular Guide (PDF), OS Circular Japanese Guide (PDF)
InetBoot for x86&x86_64 LiveCD (Debian-Lenny-Beta1/Fedora/Ubuntu/KNOPPIX/VMKnoppix)" is released.
- Detail HP ( English Guide PDF and Japanese Guide PDF )
InetBoot for x86&x86_64 LiveCD (Fedora/Ubuntu/KNOPPIX/VMKnoppix)" is released.
- Detail HP
InetBoot for "Fedora/Ubuntu/KNOPPIX/VMKnoppix" is released.
- Detail HP
"VMSeed (080430 experimental version)" is released.
- Detail HP
"InetBoot (GRUB+BuildRoot+HTTP-FUSE)" is released.
- Detail HP
"InetBoot (GRUB+BuildRoot) for netfs" is released.
- Detail HP
VMKnoppix for x86 (20080213) is released. (GuidePDF)
- It includes OS Circular and enables to boot some Linux Distributions {CentOS5|Debian Etch|Ubuntu606|Ubuntu610|Ubuntu704} on a virtual machine {Xen|QEMU|KQEMU|KVM} with Internet Virtual Disk "Trusted HTTP-FUSE CLOOP".
- Detail HP
"HTTP-FUSE PS3 Linux" is released.
Disk Image for HttpDisk is released.
- The detail is written in HP of "Disk Image for HttpDisk".
New VMKoppix for x86 and x86_64 is released.
- It includes Xen3.0 for x86/x86_64, KVM/KQEMU/QEMU for HTTP-FUSE, and httpfs/ftpfs.
OS Circular on QEMU/KQEMU/KVM
- The script is released for VMKNOPPIX. The detail is written in HP of VMKNOPPIX.

Compare related works

	OS Circular	LivePC (Moka5)	FLOZ(FreeLiveOSZoo)
Installed Software	LBCAS Virtual Machine (Xen, or KVM, or QEMU)	VMware Player (Windows) VMware Fusion (MacOS)	Internet Explore with JRE Browser with VNC
System Requirements	Linux (Ubuntu/Debian), Windows, MacOS	Windows, MacOS	Any
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Reference

Presented Papers & Posters
- Linux Symposium 2009 (Montreal, Canada)
  - Effect of readahead and file system block reallocation for LBCAS (LoopBack Content Addressable Storage), Kuniyasu Suzaki, Kengo Iijima, Toshiki Yagi, Nguyen Anh Quynh, and Yoshihito Watanabe
  - Slide-PDF, Paper-PDF (Proccedings of the Linux Symposium 2009, page 275-286)
- 3rd Asia-Pacific Trusted Infrastructure Technologies Conference (APTC 2008)
  - Trusted Boot and Platform Trust Services on 1CD Linux, Kuniyasu Suzaki, Kengo Iijima, Toshiki Yagi, and Nguyen Anh Quynh
  - Paper-PDF, Slide-PDF
- USENIX Annual Techinical Conference 2008
  - (Poster)InetBoot and VMSeed; Trusted Internet Bootloader for Hypervisor and Guest OS, Kuniyasu Suzaki, Kengo Iijima, Toshiki Yagi, and Nguyen Anh Quynh
  - Poster-PDF
- Thirteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '08)
  - (Poster)TPM + Internet Virtual Disk + Platform Trust Services = Internet Client, Kuniyasu Suzaki, Kengo Iijima, Toshiki Yagi, Nguyen Anh Quynh, Megumi Nakamura and Seiji Muhetoh
  - Poster-PDF, Leaflet-PDF
- USENIX LISA 2007 (21st Large Installation System Administration conference) Dallas, USA, Nov. 14-17
  - OS Circular: Internet Client for Reference, Kuniyasu Suzaki, Toshiki Yagi, Kengo Iijima, and Nguyen Anh Quynh
  - Paper-PDF, Slide-PDF
- LinuxConf Europa 2007, Cambridge UK, Sep. 2-5
  - OS Circular on QEMU/KQEMU/KVM/Xen-HVM, Kuniyasu Suzaki, Toshiki Yagi, Kengo Iijima, Nguyen Anh Quynh
  - Paper-PDF, Slide-PDF
- Linux Konogress 2006 (Nurnberg)
  - Trusted Boot of HTTP-FUSE KNOPPIX, Kuniyasu Suzaki, Toshiki Yagi, Kengo Iijima(AIST), Megumi Nakamura, Seiji Munetoh (IBM Japan)
  - Papser-PDF, Slide-PDF
- Linux Symposium2006 (Ottawa)
  - HTTP-FUSE Xenoppix, Kuniyasu Suzaki, Toshiki Yagi, Kengo Iijima(AIST), Kenji Kitagawa (AlphaSystems,Inc), Shuuichi Tashiro (IPA)
  - Papser-PDF, Slide-PDF
Talks
- LinuxConfAustralia 2009 "OS Circular: Internet bootable OS Archive"
  - Slide PDF
- BOF "OS Circular" at Ottawa Linux Symposium 2008
  - Slide PDF
- Virtualization MiniSummit at Ottawa Linux Symposium 2008: Virtual TPM on Xen/KVM for Trusted Computing
  - Slide PDF
- Virtualization Miniconf at LCA08: Trusted and Stackable Virtual Disk for OS Circular
  - Slide PDF
- XenSummit 2007 Spring: "OS-Circular": A Framework of Internet Client with Xen
  - Slide PDF
- Virtualization Miniconf at LCA07: OS Circulation environment "Trusted HTTP-FUSE Xenoppix"
  - Slide PDF, OpenOffice 2.0 Impress

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