Re: A question about mirage

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Hello Anil,

thanks for your reply. This sounds very good to me. I think that Mirage is a great project, I think that the building of specialized appliances will be the future.

I have another question about a special Mirage usecase: I builded a oxenstored mirage appliance which worked without problems. Now I would like to run it on a Xen 4.2.1 with Linux 3.7.4. I talked already with some persons and they say that there are problems with XSM/FLASK. Daniel de Graaf wrote an XSM/FLASK ruleset which should work with 4.3 unstable in this mailinglist post: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-01/msg00956.html

Do you know whether it's possible to modify this ruleset so that oxenstored could work on 4.2.1 and the given XSM/FLASK features in this version?

Best Regards

2013/2/4 Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>

Not yet; you have to use the Mirage base module which provides the OS abstraction. However, some software is already written to be functorised across an OS module for portability, such as the Arakoon database engine (arakoon.org).  These were quite easy to port to Mirage.  Others, such as MLDonkey, use the Unix module extensively and are harder.

Raphael Proust is looking into a Mirage/UNIX compatibility layer, so this is something we'll expand on more later on in the year once a stable first version has been released.

-anil

On 4 Feb 2013, at 10:29, tech mailinglists <mailinglists.tech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have a question about the mirage OS. Is it possible to run every OCaml Source Code in mirage? So would it be possible to run for example a webserver written in OCaml or MLDonkey in mirage?
>
> Best Regards