Re: [MirageOS-devel] Mirage as NetVM

[Thomas Leonard <talex5@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 18:19, <miragenetvm@mail2tor> wrote:
>
> In my post on Qubes list I asked if it was possible to run Mirage as a Netvm:
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/qubes-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg28027.html
>
> The answer I got was that it may be possible, but I need to figure it out
> myself.
>
> Before I jump into it, is there anything I need to know beforehand? for
> example is there a opam package I need to install to make it work?

Using Mirage for NetVM would be very difficult. To start with, you
would need a Mirage driver for your computer's physical network card,
which is unlikely to exist. Mirage mostly only supports virtual
network devices (e.g. there is a Xen virtual network interface driver
at https://github.com/mirage/mirage-net-xen/). Of course, you're
welcome to write one. There is one driver I know of (see
https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/using-ocaml-to-write-network-interface-drivers/3276),
but it is very experimental.

You would probably also want to support DHCP (which can be done using
https://github.com/mirage/charrua), plus something to replace
NetworkManager and wpa-supplicant (which don't have Mirage
replacements as far as I know).


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