Re: [MirageOS-devel] Pre-built Xen images for Cubieboard/CubieTruck

[Thomas Leonard <talex5@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 20 July 2014 11:07, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 20 Jul 2014, at 09:08, Thomas Leonard <talex5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I've uploaded some pre-built images here:
>>
>> http://blobs.openmirage.org/cubieboard2-xen-iso.tar.bz2 (Cubieboard 2)
>> http://blobs.openmirage.org/cubietruck-xen-iso.tar.bz2 (CubieTruck)
>>
>> (built from current https://github.com/mirage/xen-arm-builder)
>>
>> I'd be interested to hear from anyone with these devices whether they
>> work for you. To test:
>>
>> 1. Download and unpack the image for your board.
>>
>> 2. Copy to the SDcard, e.g.
>>    dd if=cubie.img of=/dev/mmcblk0
>>
>> 3. Boot the device. It should get an IP address by DHCP.
>
> On MacOS X, the dd instructions are:
>
> 1. Find the disk device of the card you inserted
>    sudo diskutil list
>    (e.g. disk2)
>
> 2. unmount the disk images
>    sudo diskutil unmountDIsk /dev/diskN
>
> 3. sudo dd if=cubie.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=64k
>
> Without the 'rdisk' in the output file, the copying will be extremely slow
> due to buffering.
>
>>
>> The devices announce a .local name using mDNS, so you should be able
>> to ssh to $BOARD.local, e.g.
>>
>>  ssh mirage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> (password: mirage)
>>
>> You should now have a working Xen host ("xl list" to list current VMs,
>> "lvcreate" to create guest disks).
>>
>> To install the ARM version of mirage:
>>
>> $ opam init
>> $ wget 
>> https://github.com/mirage/mirage-xen-minios/releases/download/v0.2/mirage-xen-minios-v0.2.tar.bz2
>> $ tar xjf mirage-xen-minios-v0.2.tar.bz2
>> $ cd mirage-xen-minios
>> $ make
>> $ opam pin mirage https://github.com/talex5/mirage.git#link_c_stubs
>> $ opam pin mirage-xen https://github.com/mirage/mirage-platform
>> $ opam pin tcpip https://github.com/talex5/mirage-tcpip.git#checksum
>> $ opam install mirage
>>
>
> Minor improvement now, since `mirage-xen-minios` has been integrated upstream 
> into OPAM.
>
>
> $ opam install mirage-minios-xen

Note: looks like it's actually:

$ opam install mirage-xen-minios

> $ opam pin mirage https://github.com/talex5/mirage.git#link_c_stubs
> $ opam pin mirage-xen https://github.com/mirage/mirage-platform
> $ opam pin tcpip https://github.com/talex5/mirage-tcpip.git#checksum
> $ opam install mirage
>
>> You should now be able to follow the rest of the Mirage tutorial:
>>
>>  http://openmirage.org/wiki/hello-world
>>
>> Notes:
>>
>> 1. On my network, the mDNS name is only available briefly. I think my
>> router may be blocking queries. If so, you might want to assign a
>> fixed IP address soon after connecting.
>>
>> 2. If you try to build a unikernel with an HTTP server, it may
>> complain that it can't link -lssl (and other libraries). For now, you
>> can edit the Makefile to remove the extra libraries.
>
> This was due to an incorrect Unix dependency sneaking into Cohttp_lwt.
> I've put a candidate fix in:
>    https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-cohttp/pull/152

Thanks!


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