Re: [Minios-devel] Getting started with unikernel development

[Len Maxwell <len@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Carl Patenaude Poulin <carl.patenaudepoulin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Thomas Leonard <talex5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Len Maxwell (CC'd) has been working on stripping out quite a bit of
> the code in Mini-OS, on this "mini-er" branch, to help with a Rust
> port:
>
>Â Âhttps://github.com/lnmx/mini-os/tree/mini-er

It's exciting to see that we're not alone with this idea! I took a look
at the repository in question, and it looks like a quite recent effort.
Maybe it would be interesting to compare notes, since we seem to be
headed in a similar direction.

Len: are you currently working on a Rust port of Mini-OS? Whatever the
case, I just send a minor pull request to your mini-er branch, and I'm
down to contribute more meaty changes in the future.

I'm currently diving into x86, Mini-OS and bare-metal Rust at the same
time. I'll report back with any questions that arise.

Hi Carl,

I have not started a Rust port of Mini-OS -- still catching up on Xen, Mini-OS, and Rust fundamentals.

My mini-os/mini-er branch is an effort to find the minimum features specifically needed to support MirageOS on Xen. Mirage uses the entrypoint, memory manager, and Xen hypercalls, but not the threading or network/block drivers.

Geoffroy C. (CC'd) also expressed an interest in Rust unikernels on mirageos-devel:

http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/mirageos-devel/2015-07/msg00091.html

cheers,

--

Len

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