Hardware

Subverge targets QEMU and hasn't been tested on real machines. If you try one, report the result.

Requirements

• BIOS booting. Machines that only boot UEFI, which includes most recent laptops, can't start it.
• VGA text mode. Many modern graphics cards barely support it, and UEFI firmware often hides it.
• A PS/2 keyboard, or firmware that emulates one for USB keyboards. Without it, Subverge boots but takes no input.
• IDE drives. SATA controllers in legacy or IDE mode may work. In AHCI mode, which is the usual default, disks finds nothing.

Code in ring 0 has full access to the machine, so on real hardware a mistake can affect real disks.

Trying it

• Use a machine whose disks you don't care about.
• Boot the ISO from USB in BIOS, legacy or CSM mode.
• Don't install it.
• Photograph the screen and attach it to an issue.

VirtualBox with its default IDE controller and BIOS firmware has a reasonable chance of working. Recent Hyper-V generations are UEFI only. QEMU is the only tested machine.