HermiTux setup to run small NAS server?

[lonnietc]

Greetings All,

A bit new to Unikernels still and am very interested in trying to see if HermiTux can be setup to run a small footprint NAS server in a VM of a Hypervisor like Xen or some other?

Additionally I can run a VPN server (SoftEther VPN) on Linux in a docker container, but another unikernel app idea that I am interested in is to see if a server be run as a single instance with HermiTux as well.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers

[olivierpierre]

Hello, thanks for your interest!

A bit new to Unikernels still and am very interested in trying to see if HermiTux can be setup to run a small footprint NAS server in a VM of a Hypervisor like Xen or some other?

For running HermiTux natively, the NAS should run a Linux system that supports KVM. It would also need to be of a supported architecture (mostly x86-64 but we also have some experimental arm64 support). Now if you want to run HermiTux within a VM then you will need something that supports nested virtualization as applications running as HermiTux's unikernels are themselves VMs.

Additionally I can run a VPN server (SoftEther VPN) on Linux in a docker container, but another unikernel app idea that I am interested in is to see if a server be run as a single instance with HermiTux as well.

The best way to answer this question is to try! HermiTux is still a prototype It's hard to guarantee that apps will work out of the box. When they don't, if you wish to explore the issue, we give a few pointers here:

• Debugging
• Syscall support

You can also create an issue here on GitHub.