proger/ling repository overview

⁠LING: Erlang on Xen

Wikipedia: -ling, an English diminutive suffix

⁠How to get started?

The easy way is to use pre-built railing utility:

1. Grab a binary named railing-<version> from releases⁠.

2. Rename the binary to railing and move it to your Erlang project directory.

3. Create the image and the domain configuration file:

    ./railing image
   

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4. Boot the Xen domain and get the familiar Erlang shell:

    xl create -c domain_config
   

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⁠How to build/hack LING?

See HACKING.md⁠.

⁠How to use railing?

Run railing without options to get help.

To generate the image and the domain configuration file use the image subcommand:

./railing image

This instructs railing to scan all subdirectories for *.beam files. All files found are embedded into the Xen image and become accessible during runtime. Certain subdirectories can be excluded from the search using -x option.