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HermiTux: a unikernel binary-compatible with Linux applications
For general information about HermiTux's design principles and implementation, please read the paper and Daniel Chiba's MS thesis.
The instruction that follows are for x86-64. We have basic support for an ARM64 embedded board, more information in the Wiki.
We also have a Slack channel for HermiTux.
Quick start
The easiest way to try HermiTux is with Docker:
docker pull olivierpierre/hermitux
docker run --privileged -it olivierpierre/hermitux
Then you can directly try to run an application.
Prerequisites
- Recommended system: Ubuntu 20.04/Debian 10 (GlibC support is not assured
on other distributions)
- See here for additional instructions regarding older distributions Ubuntu 18.04/16.04 or Debian 10/9
- Debian/Ubuntu packages:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install git build-essential cmake nasm apt-transport-https wget \
libgmp-dev bsdmainutils libseccomp-dev python libelf-dev
-
HermitCore toolchain
installed in
/opt/hermit:
echo "deb [trusted=yes] https://dl.bintray.com/hermitcore/ubuntu bionic main" \
| sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install binutils-hermit newlib-hermit pte-hermit gcc-hermit \
libomp-hermit libhermit
Build
- Clone the repository and retrieve the submodules
git clone https://github.com/ssrg-vt/hermitux
cd hermitux
git submodule init && git submodule update
- Compile everything as follows:
make
Run an application
Test an example application, for example NPB IS:
cd apps/npb/is
# let's compile it as a static binary:
gcc *.c -o is -static
# let's launch it with HermiTux:
sudo HERMIT_ISLE=uhyve HERMIT_TUX=1 ../../../hermitux-kernel/prefix/bin/proxy \
../../../hermitux-kernel/prefix/x86_64-hermit/extra/tests/hermitux is
# Now let's try with a dynamically linked program:
gcc *.c -o is-dyn
# We can run it by having hermitux execute the dynamic linux loader:
sudo HERMIT_ISLE=uhyve HERMIT_TUX=1 \
../../../hermitux-kernel/prefix/bin/proxy \
../../../hermitux-kernel/prefix/x86_64-hermit/extra/tests/hermitux \
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ./is-dyn
For more documentation about multiple topics, please see the wiki: https://github.com/ssrg-vt/hermitux/wiki
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