There is some documentation that elaborates on talex5's explanation at 
https://mirage.io/wiki/mirage2-to-mirage3 , under the "Mirage3 errors" section. 
Please let us know whether it's still unclear how to proceed, as I'm always 
interested in improving this documentation.

This message was typed on a touchscreen keyboard. Please forgive typos and 
brevity.

> On Sep 5, 2017, at 10:36, Thomas Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 30 August 2017 at 20:43, Mike Neilsen <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> I'm interested in exercising the "vchan-xen" OPAM package in a Mirage
>> unikernel, and I figured a good way to get started would be to study
>> the test/example code accompanying the ocaml-vchan[0] project.
>> However, I'm struggling to get the lib_test/mirage[1] unikernels to
>> compile.
>> 
>> I'm using Mirage 3.0.5 and vchan-xen 3.0.0.
>> 
>> I updated config_server.ml and config_client.ml to use the newest
>> Functoria syntax and succeeded in configuring the unikernels.  But
>> when I try to build them, I get the following error (server case is
>> shown here, but client is similar):
>> 
>> File "unikernel.ml", line 32, characters 5-9:
>> Error: This pattern matches values of type
>>         [< `Eof | `Error of 'a | `Ok of 'b ]
>>       but a pattern was expected which matches values of type
>>         (VX.buffer Mirage_flow.or_eof, VX.error) Result.result =
>>           (VX.buffer Mirage_flow.or_eof, VX.error) result
>> 
>> I'm not sure what to make of this...  My questions:
>> 
>> * Is there a simple way to rectify this problem?
> 
> The error says the result is now of type "result", which means either
> Ok or Error, not `Ok, `Error or `Eof.
> (note the lack of the ` on the new constructors).
> 
>> * Is anyone successfully using ocaml-vchan in Mirage?
> 
> The Qubes firewall uses it:
> 
> https://github.com/talex5/qubes-mirage-firewall
> 
> 
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