[MirageOS-devel] MacOS X vmnet support

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

One annoyance to using Mirage on MacOS X has always been the lack of network 
bridging, which means that the network stack couldn't communicate with the 
outside world.

In Yosemite, a mysterious `vmnet` framework appeared that does support 
bridging, and so I've created an alternative to the tuntap module which works 
great.  Using it, I can easily spawn network applications that can make 
external Internet queries using the OCaml network stack from Unix.

I could use a sanity test from someone else running Yosemite first before I 
release this.  If you are on an older MacOS X, then you will need to pass 
`--no-macosx` to the Mirage CLI to not use the new packages and use the old 
tuntap module.

- `opam update` so you have the `vmnet` and `mirage-net-macos` packages (merged 
upstream today)
- `opam pin add mirage git://github.com/mirage/mirage` to get the 2.0.2 working 
tree.
- Try this mirage-skeleton example 
https://github.com/mirage/mirage-skeleton/pull/58 (using `DHCP=1 mirage 
configure`)
- Report back to this thread :)

For CHANGES in Mirage 2.0.2 see: 
https://github.com/mirage/mirage/blob/master/CHANGES

-anil
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