OS development playground.
This stuff is much easier to do on Linux, so I'm using Vagrant to easily work inside a Linux vm. It's super easy to use:
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
Now that you have the vagrant environment, you should be able to run the kernel using Bochs:
vagrant ssh
cd /vagrant
make bochs
Currently, you should expect to see a terminal full of 'x's. Presumably, it will do something slightly more interesting at some point!