justincormack/rumprun repository overview

⁠Rumprun

This repository uses rump kernels⁠ to provide the Rumprun unikernel⁠. Rumprun works on not only on hypervisors such as KVM and Xen, but also on bare metal. Rumprun can be used with or without a POSIX'y interface. The former allows existing, unmodified POSIX applications to run out-of-the-box, while the latter allows building highly customized solutions with minimal footprints.

See the wiki⁠ for more information and instructions.

Some of our tools will throw a warning about them being experimental. It does not mean that they are not expected to produce a working result. The wiki explains⁠ further.

You will find software packages for rumprun from the rumprun-packages repository⁠.

⁠hw

The hardware (``hw'') platform is meant for embedded systems and the cloud. It works on raw hardware, but also supports virtio drivers and KVM. For a demonstration, see this youtube video⁠ where the hw platform is booted on a laptop and plays audio using the PCI hdaudio drivers. The supported CPU architectures are x86_32, x86_64 and ARM.

⁠Xen

The Xen platform is optimized for running on top of the Xen hypervisor as a paravirtualized guest, and provides support for virtualization functions not available on the hw platform. The Xen platform will work both against the xl tools and the Amazon EC2 cloud. The supported CPU architectures are x86_32 and x86_64.