Project Guest VM: Checking out Maxine Source Code with Mercurial

The Maxine source code is hosted at the Kenai site. This page provides instructions on how to check out the Maxine source code using Mercurial 1.0 or greater. To use these instructions, first install Mercurial so that the hg command is available in your shell.

Once you can successfully execute the hg command, you can checkout Maxine Source Code by using the clone Mercurial command. Since Guest VM is tightly bound to Maxine, it is important to clone a specific version of Maxine that is known to be compatible, using the -r option. The current compatible version of Maxine is 3018.

% hg clone -r 3018 https://kenai.com/hg/maxine~maxine maxine
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 3019 changesets with 30606 changes to 6081 files
updating working directory
4555 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
% 

This command will create a directory called maxine with the contents checked out from the Kenai site.

Later, when updates are available, you can use the standard Mercurial commands to request the changes:

% hg pull -r 3018
pulling from https://kenai.com/hg/maxine~maxine
searching for changes
no changes found
% 

For more information on how to use Mercurial, see the Mercurial site.