rajamesandClaude Opus 5.5
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Captain Bob, 2026-11-06: a terminal with QEMU amd64 for people to play with; "Mint Zuse for demo console" (#111); "Make the most recent of builds that's green the demo"; a Try-it XWiki page with the console embedded. demo/ -- see its README: mint-zuse.sh a Zuse of the demo's own, as a stick: blank pair, system=v3 genesis, a second boot to confirm, make zusestick. Never anyone's real Zuse build-iso.sh the amd64 ISO, packed as make qemu packs it make-snapshot.sh boot once to [zuse@Hera] ok>, save the machine start-session.sh one visitor: the saved machine resumed, ended on hang-up, close or time-out console.py joins the visitor's terminal only once the machine runs; keys typed while it loads are discarded qemu-args.sh the machine, shared by save and resume starshipos-demo.service, apache-demo.conf, xwiki-try-it.xwiki Every session is a copy: no network, read-only image, the Zuse stick's writes discarded, QEMU's seccomp sandbox, an unprivileged user, a fenced systemd unit, 30 minutes at most. Tested here, from the sources master accepted (run 153): the Zuse minted (logs/20261106-192626, -192739); the saved machine at POST 538/538 and [zuse@Hera] ok>; a session through ttyd's websocket ready in 0.2 s, 3 4 + . -> 7 ok, 7 SQUARE . -> 49 ok; QEMU gone at once on hang-up, close and time-out. Found and fixed on the way: a machine saved stopped resumes stopped; a prompt matched as a regex; QEMU left behind by a hang-up; keys lost while the machine loads. Not tested here: Apache, several sessions at once (#116). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GE3SDvQn5EoxdGufk84zz2
demo/ -- StarshipOS in a browser
A public "Try it" console: each visitor gets a StarshipOS machine of their own, logged in as a Zuse minted for the demo, resumed at its prompt in under a second, gone when they leave. Milestone Public demo terminal (#111-#117).
XWiki "Try it" page (iframe) -> Apache: TLS, websocket -> ttyd -> start-session.sh
-> QEMU amd64, resumed from the saved machine
<-> console.py <-> the visitor's terminal
The pieces
| File | What it does |
|---|---|
mint-zuse.sh |
Mints a Zuse of the demo's own -- never anyone's real one -- as a stick (#111, ruled 2026-11-06) |
build-iso.sh |
Packs the amd64 ISO from a kernel build, as make qemu packs it |
make-snapshot.sh |
Boots the machine once to [zuse@Hera] ok> and saves it (#113) |
start-session.sh |
One visitor's session: resumes the saved machine, ends it on hang-up, close or time-out (#112) |
console.py |
Joins the visitor's terminal to the machine only once it runs, discarding keys typed while it loads |
qemu-args.sh |
The machine, shared by the two above: a resumed machine must match the saved one exactly |
starshipos-demo.service |
ttyd as a systemd service, on localhost, at most 3 sessions (#114) |
apache-demo.conf |
Example vhost: TLS, the websocket, framing allowed for the XWiki only (#115) |
xwiki-try-it.xwiki |
The XWiki "Try it" page, with the console embedded (XWiki 2.1 syntax) |
What a visitor cannot do
Each session is a copy: the firmware variables are copied, the image is read-only, and the Zuse
stick's writes are discarded (snapshot=on). The guest has no network device. QEMU runs under its
seccomp sandbox (no spawning, no privilege changes), as an unprivileged user, inside a systemd unit
that fences memory, CPU and the file system. A session lasts at most DEMO_SESSION_LIMIT seconds
(1800).
Setting it up
From a checkout of the most recent green commit -- the latest that passed acceptance, master
(or, once it is published, the nightly's StarshipOS.iso):
make ARCH=amd64 init INIT_DOCS=0
demo/mint-zuse.sh /tmp/demo-zuse # once; keep the stick
demo/build-iso.sh /tmp/StarshipOS.iso
DEMO_PROMPT='[zuse@Hera]' demo/make-snapshot.sh /tmp/StarshipOS.iso /var/lib/starshipos-demo /tmp/demo-zuse/zusestick.img
Then install starshipos-demo.service and apache-demo.conf (their headers say how), and paste
xwiki-try-it.xwiki into a page on the XWiki. The {{html}} macro there needs a page author
with script rights.
A new image means re-running build-iso.sh and make-snapshot.sh: the saved machine belongs to
one image and one QEMU version. Sessions already running keep theirs.
Tested (2026-11-06, Ubuntu 24.04, QEMU 8.2.2, ttyd 1.7.4)
- The Zuse minted: "genesis minted", then "identity confirmed" (
logs/20261106-192626,-192739). - The saved machine: POST 538/538, "identity confirmed",
[zuse@Hera] ok>after an 87 s boot. - A session, in a terminal and through ttyd's websocket: ready 0.2 s after it starts;
3 4 + .answers7 ok,: SQUARE DUP * ; 7 SQUARE .answers49 ok; keys typed before "Ready" are discarded, not half-delivered. - QEMU is gone 0.1 s or less after a hang-up or a closed terminal, and on time at the session limit.
- Not tested here: Apache (none in the test container), several sessions at once (#116).