On 22 Jul 2015, at 23:09, Antti Kantee <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 22/07/15 17:25, Martin Lucina wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've just submitted a patch to upstream Xen which will be of interest to
>> rumprun users who want to run "rumprun -i" non-interactively, ie. without
>> stdin and piping stdout to eg. logger. This also allows you to trivially
>> run a rumprun unokernel as a systemd service.
> 
> Cool, that is definitely a useful improvement for folks who want to 
> (semi-)automatically provision a large number of rumprun unikernels and still 
> keep track of what they are doing.
> 
> I assume your motivation for the integration with systemd is to start 
> services as a set of unikernels when a host boots up.
> 

This very problem just came up for our MirageOS unikernels as well.  Has anyone 
actually got systemd playing nicely with on-demand launching of kernels with 
xl?  Magnus (CCed) has been refreshing his "Jitsu" daemon [1] which launches a 
Xen VM in response to network traffic, and we observed that its featureset is 
rapidly set to collide with systemd/launchd...

[1] https://github.com/mirage/jitsu

> 
> That said, I wonder if -i should not be called -i.  Enabling the use of 
> interactive mode non-interactively is, um, weird ;)

That is a little odd.  Something like "-n" would be closer to what the ssh 
client uses...

-anil

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