Re: Problem with tuntap while building mirage-www

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This indicates that the tuntap MacOS X kext hasn't been installed correctly.  I 
dont know if the tuntap Homebrew package installs the kext, as the homepage has 
an Mpkg installer which installs the kernel module for you.

-anil

On 10 Sep 2013, at 14:53, Amir Chaudhry <amc79@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm going through the Mirage install instructions to build the mirage website 
> and hit a tuntap related problem.  I installed tuntap via `brew install 
> tuntap` and went through some of the brew caveats (i.e a few `sudo cp` and 
> `sudo chown` steps).
> 
> Some notes:
> - My compiler switch is OCaml 4.01.0 RC2 (ie I varied from the instructions 
> by doing `opam switch mirage-unix -a 4.01.0` instead)
> 
> - I'm trying to use the mirage network stack so I ran...
> $ make clean unix-direct-build      # this seems to work fine
> $ sudo make run                              # this produces the output below
> 
> … but I have the same error with unix-socket-build.  Not sure what I've done 
> wrong with tuntap.  
> What can I try next?  
> 
> ============================
> 
> amir$ sudo make run
> cd src && sudo mirari run www.conf 
> [mirari] Using specified config file www.conf
> [mirari] + unix direct mode
> [mirari] Creating tap0 interface.
> /dev/tap0
> [mirari] Ctrl-C received, killing child and exiting.
> 
> [mirari] Tuntap failed with error No such file or directory. Remember that 
> mirari has to be run as root have the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability in order to be 
> able to run unikernels for the UNIX backendmirari: internal error, uncaught 
> exception:
>        Failure("No such file or directory")
> 
> make: *** [run] Error 1
> amir$ 
> 
> ============================
> 
> 
> Amir