[MirageOS-devel] Marshal data to a simple FS store?

2016-11-17 Thread Chris Wilson
Hello MirageOS! I’m working on a simple application that accepts a form post, parses the input, and then adds the info into a list of records. Once I have this list of records, I’m planning on writing it out to a file using the FS interface, here’s the function I’ve written: module Main .

Re: [MirageOS-devel] Should the xen build of Solo5/MirageOS boot on EC2?

2016-11-17 Thread Andrew Stuart
Hi Dan, I’m building some software that aims to make it easy to run unikernels on the major cloud platforms. For MirageOS, Solo5 seems to be a super simple way to make that happen - on GCE anyway. A few quick commands and you’re good to go. It would be great to be able to do the same on Xen ba

Re: [MirageOS-devel] Should the xen build of Solo5/MirageOS boot on EC2?

2016-11-17 Thread Daniel J Williams
Andrew Stuart wrote on 11/17/2016 02:52:27 PM: > I’m curious to understand - if solo5 had Xen PV on HVM drivers > https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Linux_PV_on_HVM_drivers, would it work > on Xen/EC2/HVM? Is the only obstacle to it working that Solo5 > doesn’t have the Xen virtual network and disk

Re: [MirageOS-devel] Should the xen build of Solo5/MirageOS boot on EC2?

2016-11-17 Thread Andrew Stuart
>> That's correct, Xen HVM uses the Xen split device driver model, not virtio, >> so Solo5 does not contain drivers for them. I’m curious to understand - if solo5 had Xen PV on HVM drivers https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Linux_PV_on_HVM_drivers, would it work on Xen/EC2/HVM? Is the only obstacle

Re: [MirageOS-devel] putting stuff on the mirage.io blog

2016-11-17 Thread Hannes Mehnert
On 17/11/2016 17:06, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: > On 17 Nov 2016, at 15:55, Mindy wrote: >> >> On 11/17/2016 09:47 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the update Thomas; I've converted your notes below into a >>> mirage.io blog post so it's easier to reference to users; edits welcome on

Re: [MirageOS-devel] mirage-runtime

2016-11-17 Thread Hannes Mehnert
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Re: [MirageOS-devel] putting stuff on the mirage.io blog

2016-11-17 Thread Richard Mortier
On 17 November 2016 at 16:41, Amir Chaudhry wrote: > I think the point is that if you already know what you're doing, it's not so > bad. If you're *not* familiar with it, then it can seem fairly complicated > compared to other static site generators. > Ah right -- yes, I completely agree with t

Re: [MirageOS-devel] putting stuff on the mirage.io blog

2016-11-17 Thread Amir Chaudhry
I think the point is that if you already know what you're doing, it's not so bad. If you're *not* familiar with it, then it can seem fairly complicated compared to other static site generators. Best wishes, Amir -- Sent via mobile > On 17 Nov 2016, at 16:29, Richard Mortier > wrote: > >> O

Re: [MirageOS-devel] putting stuff on the mirage.io blog

2016-11-17 Thread Richard Mortier
On 17 November 2016 at 16:06, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: > I also acknowledge that it's a royal pain to build mirage-www locally right > now, so I am working on making it a more lightweight unikernel (by staging > the HTML generation) as part of the MirageOS3 release efforts. More on that > when

Re: [MirageOS-devel] putting stuff on the mirage.io blog

2016-11-17 Thread Anil Madhavapeddy
On 17 Nov 2016, at 15:55, Mindy wrote: > > On 11/17/2016 09:47 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: > >> Thanks for the update Thomas; I've converted your notes below into a >> mirage.io blog post so it's easier to reference to users; edits welcome on : >> https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/pull/500

Re: [MirageOS-devel] putting stuff on the mirage.io blog

2016-11-17 Thread Mindy
On 11/17/2016 09:47 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: Thanks for the update Thomas; I've converted your notes below into a mirage.io blog post so it's easier to reference to users; edits welcome on : https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/pull/500 I really like the idea of shorter, more frequent blog

Re: [MirageOS-devel] [ANN] release of Irmin 0.12.0 and introducing irmin-watcher

2016-11-17 Thread Anil Madhavapeddy
Thanks for the update Thomas; I've converted your notes below into a mirage.io blog post so it's easier to reference to users; edits welcome on : https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/pull/500 regards, Anil > On 17 Nov 2016, at 12:06, Thomas Gazagnaire wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am in the proce

Re: [MirageOS-devel] Should the xen build of Solo5/MirageOS boot on EC2?

2016-11-17 Thread Daniel J Williams
> The question is - should the xen build of Solo5/MirageOS boot on EC2? Just to clarify, Solo5 is only used for the virtio and ukvm backends, the Xen backend is not related to Solo5. > The virtio build boots OK on EC2, but without network driver. > The xen build does not boot on EC2, grub says “

[MirageOS-devel] [ANN] release of Irmin 0.12.0 and introducing irmin-watcher

2016-11-17 Thread Thomas Gazagnaire
Hi all, I am in the process of releasing Irmin 0.12.0[1] which brings support for native file-system watchers, to improve the performance of watches. Previously, an Irmin apps who wanted to use watches would set-up file-system scanning/polling by doing: let () = Irmin_unix.install_dir_pol