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date: 2024-10-22
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title: Runtime arguments in MirageOS
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description:
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The history of runtime arguments to a MirageOS unikernel
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tags:
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- OCaml
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- MirageOS
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author:
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name: Hannes Mehnert
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email: hannes@mehnert.org
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link: https://hannes.robur.coop
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---
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TL;DR: Passing runtime arguments around is tricky, and prone to change every other month.
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## Motivation
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Sometimes, as an unikernel developer and also as operator, it's nice to have
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some runtime arguments passed to an unikernel. Now, if you're into OCaml,
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command-line parsing - together with error messages, man page generation, ... -
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can be done by the amazing [cmdliner](https://erratique.ch/software/cmdliner)
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package from Daniel Bünzli.
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MirageOS uses cmdliner for command line argument passing. This also enabled
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us from the early days to have nice man pages for unikernels (see
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`my-unikernel-binary --help`). There are two kinds
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of arguments: those at configuration time (`mirage configure`), such as the
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target to compile for, and those at runtime - when the unikernel is executed.
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In Mirage 4.8.1 and 4.8.0 (released October 2024) there have been some changes
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to command-line arguments, which were motivated by 4.5.0 (released April 2024)
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and user feedback.
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First of all, our current way to pass a custom runtime argument to a unikernel
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(`unikernel.ml`):
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```OCaml
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open Lwt.Infix
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open Cmdliner
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let hello =
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let doc = Arg.info ~doc:"How to say hello." [ "hello" ] in
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let term = Arg.(value & opt string "Hello World!" doc) in
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Mirage_runtime.register_arg term
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module Hello (Time : Mirage_time.S) = struct
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let start _time =
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let rec loop = function
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Logs.info (fun f -> f "%s" (hello ()));
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Time.sleep_ns (Duration.of_sec 1) >>= fun () -> loop (n - 1)
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in
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loop 4
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end
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```
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We define the [Cmdliner.Term.t](https://erratique.ch/software/cmdliner/doc/Cmdliner/Term/index.html#type-t)
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in line 6 (`let term = ..`) - which provides documentation ("How to say hello."), the option to
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use (`["hello"]` - which is then translated to `--hello=`), that it is optional,
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of type `string` (cmdliner allows you to convert the incoming strings to more
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complex (or more narrow) data types, with decent error handling).
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The defined argument is directly passed to [`Mirage_runtime.register_arg`](https://ocaml.org/p/mirage-runtime/4.8.1/doc/Mirage_runtime/index.html#val-register_arg),
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(in line 7) so our binding `hello` is of type `unit -> string`.
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In line 14, the value of the runtime argument is used (`hello ()`) for printing
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a log message.
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The nice property is that it is all local in `unikernel.ml`, there are no other
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parts involved. It is just a bunch of API calls. The downside is that `hello ()`
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should only be evaluated after the function `start` was called - since the
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`Mirage_runtime` needs to parse and fill in the command line arguments. If you
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call `hello ()` earlier, you'll get an exception "Called too early. Please delay
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this call to after the start function of the unikernel.". Also, since
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Mirage_runtime needs to collect and evaluate the command line arguments, the
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`Mirage_runtime.register_arg` may only be called at top-level, otherwise you'll
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get another exception "The function register_arg was called to late. Please call
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register_arg before the start function is executed (e.g. in a top-level binding).".
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Another advantage is, having it all in unikernel.ml means adding and removing
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arguments doesn't need another execution of `mirage configure`. Also, any
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type can be used that the unikernel depends on - the config.ml is compiled only
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with a small set of dependencies (mirage itself) - and we don't want to impose a
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large dependency cone for mirage just because someone may like to use
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X509.Key_type.t as argument type.
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Earlier, before mirage 4.5.0, we had runtime and configure arguments mixed
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together. And code was generated when `mirage configure` was executed to
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deal with these arguments. The downsides included: we needed serialization for
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all command-line arguments (at configure time you could fill the argument, which
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was then serialized, and deserialized at runtime and used unless the argument
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was provided explicitly), they had to appear in `config.ml` (which also means
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changing any would need an execution of `mirage configure`), since they generated code
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potential errors were in code that the developer didn't write (though we had
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some `__POS__` arguments to provide error locations in the developer code).
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Related recent changes are:
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- in mirage 4.8.1, the runtime arguments to configure the OCaml runtime system
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(such as GC settings, randomization of hashtables, recording of backtraces)
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are now provided using the [cmdliner-stdlib](https://ocaml.org/p/cmdliner-stdlib)
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package.
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- in mirage 4.8.0, for git, dns-client, and happy-eyeballs devices the optional
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arguments are generated by default - so they are always available and don't
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need to be manually done by the unikernel developer.
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Let's dive a bit deeper into the history.
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## History
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In MirageOS, since the early stages (I'll go back to 2.7.0 (February 2016) where
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functoria was introduced) used an embedded fork of `cmdliner` to handle command
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line arguments.
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[![Animated changes to the hello world unikernel](https://asciinema.org/a/ruHoadi2oZGOzgzMKk5ZYoFgf.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/ruHoadi2oZGOzgzMKk5ZYoFgf)
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### February 2016 (Mirage 2.7.0)
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When looking into the MirageOS 2.x series, here's the code for our hello world
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unikernel:
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`config.ml`
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```OCaml
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open Mirage
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let hello =
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let doc = Key.Arg.info ~doc:"How to say hello." ["hello"] in
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Key.(create "hello" Arg.(opt string "Hello World!" doc))
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let main =
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foreign
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~keys:[Key.abstract hello]
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"Unikernel.Hello" (console @-> job)
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let () = register "hello-key" [main $ default_console]
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```
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and `unikernel.ml`
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```OCaml
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open Lwt.Infix
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module Hello (C: V1_LWT.CONSOLE) = struct
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let start c =
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let rec loop = function
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C.log c (Key_gen.hello ());
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OS.Time.sleep 1.0 >>= fun () ->
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loop (n-1)
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loop 4
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end
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```
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As you can see, the cmdliner term was provided in `config.ml`, and in
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`unikernel.ml` the expression `Key_gen.hello ()` was used - `Key_gen` was
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a module generated by the `mirage configure` invocation.
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You can as well see that the term was wrapped in `Key.create "hello"` - where
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this string was used as the identifier for the code generation.
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As mentioned above, a change needed to be done in `config.ml` and a
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`mirage configure` to take effect.
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### July 2016 (Mirage 2.9.1)
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The `OS.Time` was functorized with a `Time` functor:
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`config.ml`
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```OCaml
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open Mirage
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let hello =
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let doc = Key.Arg.info ~doc:"How to say hello." ["hello"] in
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Key.(create "hello" Arg.(opt string "Hello World!" doc))
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let main =
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foreign
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~keys:[Key.abstract hello]
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"Unikernel.Hello" (console @-> time @-> job)
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let () = register "hello-key" [main $ default_console $ default_time]
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```
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and `unikernel.ml`
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```OCaml
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open Lwt.Infix
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module Hello (C: V1_LWT.CONSOLE) (Time : V1_LWT.TIME) = struct
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let start c _time =
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let rec loop = function
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C.log c (Key_gen.hello ());
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Time.sleep 1.0 >>= fun () ->
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loop (n-1)
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in
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loop 4
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end
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```
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### February 2017 (Mirage pre3)
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The `Time` signature changed, now the `sleep_ns` function sleeps in nanoseconds.
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This avoids floating point numbers at the core of MirageOS. The helper package
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`duration` is used to avoid manual conversions.
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Also, the console signature changed - and `log` is now inside the Lwt monad.
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`config.ml`
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```OCaml
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open Mirage
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let hello =
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let doc = Key.Arg.info ~doc:"How to say hello." ["hello"] in
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Key.(create "hello" Arg.(opt string "Hello World!" doc))
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let main =
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foreign
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~keys:[Key.abstract hello]
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~packages:[package "duration"]
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"Unikernel.Hello" (console @-> time @-> job)
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let () = register "hello-key" [main $ default_console $ default_time]
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```
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```OCaml
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module Hello (C: V1_LWT.CONSOLE) (Time : V1_LWT.TIME) = struct
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let start c _time =
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let rec loop = function
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C.log c (Key_gen.hello ()) >>= fun () ->
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Time.sleep_ns (Duration.of_sec 1) >>= fun () ->
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loop (n-1)
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in
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end
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```
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### February 2017 (Mirage 3)
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Another big change is that now console is not used anymore, but
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[logs](https://erratique.ch/software/logs).
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`config.ml`
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```OCaml
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open Mirage
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let hello =
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let doc = Key.Arg.info ~doc:"How to say hello." ["hello"] in
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Key.(create "hello" Arg.(opt string "Hello World!" doc))
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let main =
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~keys:[Key.abstract hello]
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~packages:[package "duration"]
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let () = register "hello-key" [main $ default_time]
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```
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```OCaml
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open Lwt.Infix
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module Hello (Time : Mirage_time_lwt.S) = struct
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let start _time =
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let rec loop = function
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Logs.info (fun f -> f "%s" (Key_gen.hello ()));
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Time.sleep_ns (Duration.of_sec 1) >>= fun () ->
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loop (n-1)
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in
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loop 4
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end
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```
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Mirage_time_lwt - where the latter was instantiating the former with concrete
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types: `type 'a io = Lwt.t` and `type buffer = Cstruct.t` -- in a cleanup
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session we dropped the `_lwt` interfaces and opam packages. The reasoning was
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that when we'll get around to move to another IO system, we'll move everything
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at once anyways. No need to have `lwt` and something else (`async`, or nowadays
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`miou` or `eio`) in a single unikernel.
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`config.ml`
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```OCaml
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open Mirage
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let hello =
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let doc = Key.Arg.info ~doc:"How to say hello." ["hello"] in
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Key.(create "hello" Arg.(opt string "Hello World!" doc))
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let main =
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foreign
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~keys:[Key.abstract hello]
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~packages:[package "duration"]
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"Unikernel.Hello" (time @-> job)
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let () = register "hello-key" [main $ default_time]
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```
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and `unikernel.ml`
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```OCaml
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open Lwt.Infix
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module Hello (Time : Mirage_time.S) = struct
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let start _time =
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let rec loop = function
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Logs.info (fun f -> f "%s" (Key_gen.hello ()));
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Time.sleep_ns (Duration.of_sec 1) >>= fun () ->
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loop (n-1)
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in
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loop 4
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end
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```
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### October 2021 (Mirage 3.10)
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Some renamings to fix warnings. Only `config.ml` changed.
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`config.ml`
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```OCaml
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open Mirage
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let hello =
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Key.(create "hello" Arg.(opt string "Hello World!" doc))
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let main =
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main
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~keys:[key hello]
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~packages:[package "duration"]
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"Unikernel.Hello" (time @-> job)
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let () = register "hello-key" [main $ default_time]
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```
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```OCaml
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open Lwt.Infix
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module Hello (Time : Mirage_time.S) = struct
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let start _time =
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let rec loop = function
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Logs.info (fun f -> f "%s" (Key_gen.hello ()));
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Time.sleep_ns (Duration.of_sec 1) >>= fun () ->
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in
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loop 4
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end
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```
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### June 2023 (Mirage 4.4)
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The argument was moved to runtime.
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`config.ml`
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```OCaml
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open Mirage
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let hello =
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let doc = Key.Arg.info ~doc:"How to say hello." ["hello"] in
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Key.(create "hello" Arg.(opt ~stage:`Run string "Hello World!" doc))
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let main =
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main
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~keys:[key hello]
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~packages:[package "duration"]
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"Unikernel.Hello" (time @-> job)
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let () = register "hello-key" [main $ default_time]
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```
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and `unikernel.ml`
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```OCaml
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open Lwt.Infix
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module Hello (Time : Mirage_time.S) = struct
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let start _time =
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let rec loop = function
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Logs.info (fun f -> f "%s" (Key_gen.hello ());
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end
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```
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### March 2024 (Mirage 4.5)
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The runtime argument is in `config.ml` refering to the argument as string
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("Unikernel.hello"), and being passed to the `start` function as argument.
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`config.ml`
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```OCaml
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open Mirage
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let runtime_args = [ runtime_arg ~pos:__POS__ "Unikernel.hello" ]
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let main =
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main
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~runtime_args
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~packages:[package "duration"]
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"Unikernel.Hello" (time @-> job)
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let () = register "hello-key" [main $ default_time]
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```
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and `unikernel.ml`
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```OCaml
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open Lwt.Infix
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open Cmdliner
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let hello =
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let doc = Arg.info ~doc:"How to say hello." [ "hello" ] in
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Arg.(value & opt string "Hello World!" doc)
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module Hello (Time : Mirage_time.S) = struct
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let start _time hello =
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let rec loop = function
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| 0 -> Lwt.return_unit
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| n ->
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Logs.info (fun f -> f "%s" hello);
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Time.sleep_ns (Duration.of_sec 1) >>= fun () ->
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loop (n-1)
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in
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loop 4
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end
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```
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### October 2024 (Mirage 4.8)
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Again, moved out of `config.ml`.
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`config.ml`
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```OCaml
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open Mirage
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let main =
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main
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~packages:[package "duration"]
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"Unikernel.Hello" (time @-> job)
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let () = register "hello-key" [main $ default_time]
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```
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and `unikernel.ml`
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```OCaml
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open Lwt.Infix
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open Cmdliner
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|
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let hello =
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let doc = Arg.info ~doc:"How to say hello." [ "hello" ] in
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Mirage_runtime.register_arg Arg.(value & opt string "Hello World!" doc)
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|
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module Hello (Time : Mirage_time.S) = struct
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let start _time =
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let rec loop = function
|
||||||
|
| 0 -> Lwt.return_unit
|
||||||
|
| n ->
|
||||||
|
Logs.info (fun f -> f "%s" (hello ()));
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|
Time.sleep_ns (Duration.of_sec 1) >>= fun () ->
|
||||||
|
loop (n-1)
|
||||||
|
in
|
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|
loop 4
|
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|
end
|
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|
```
|
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|
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### 2024 (Not yet released)
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This is the future with time defunctorized. Read more in the [discussion](https://github.com/mirage/mirage/issues/1513).
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|
To delay the start function, a `dep` of `noop` is introduced.
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|
`config.ml`
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|
```OCaml
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|
open Mirage
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
let main =
|
||||||
|
main
|
||||||
|
~packages:[package "duration"]
|
||||||
|
~dep:[dep noop]
|
||||||
|
"Unikernel" job
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
let () = register "hello-key" [main]
|
||||||
|
```
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
and `unikernel.ml`
|
||||||
|
```OCaml
|
||||||
|
open Lwt.Infix
|
||||||
|
open Cmdliner
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
let hello =
|
||||||
|
let doc = Arg.info ~doc:"How to say hello." [ "hello" ] in
|
||||||
|
Mirage_runtime.register_arg Arg.(value & opt string "Hello World!" doc)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
let start () =
|
||||||
|
let rec loop = function
|
||||||
|
| 0 -> Lwt.return_unit
|
||||||
|
| n ->
|
||||||
|
Logs.info (fun f -> f "%s" (hello ()));
|
||||||
|
Mirage_timer.sleep_ns (Duration.of_sec 1) >>= fun () ->
|
||||||
|
loop (n-1)
|
||||||
|
in
|
||||||
|
loop 4
|
||||||
|
```
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Conclusion
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The history of hello world shows that over time we slowly improve the developer
|
||||||
|
experience, and removing the boilerplate needed to get MirageOS unikernels up
|
||||||
|
and running. This is work over a decade including lots of other (here invisible)
|
||||||
|
improvements to the mirage utility.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Our current goal is to minimize the code generated by mirage, since code
|
||||||
|
generation has lots of issues (e.g. error locations, naming, binary size). It
|
||||||
|
is a long journey. At the same time, we are working on improving the performance
|
||||||
|
of MirageOS unikernels, developing unikernels that are useful in the real
|
||||||
|
world ([VPN endpoint](https://github.com/robur-coop/miragevpn), [DNSmasq replacement](https://github.com/robur-coop/dnsvizor), ...), and also [simplifying the
|
||||||
|
deployment of MirageOS unikernels](https://github.com/robur-coop/mollymawk).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you're interested in MirageOS and using it in your domain, don't hesitate
|
||||||
|
to reach out to us (via eMail: team@robur.coop) - we're keen to deploy MirageOS
|
||||||
|
and find more domains where it is useful. If you can spare a dime, we're a
|
||||||
|
registered non-profit in Germany - and can provide tax-deductable receipts for
|
||||||
|
donations ([more information](https://robur.coop/Donate)).
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