Hello! I just merged the work to support microvm in Toro. This work has started at the beginning of May'20 (end of lock-down in France) and has almost finished couple of days ago (still in lock-down). This work removes the support for legacy devices,e.g., 8259, pic, CMOS, changes the bootloader among other features. The use of microvm together with other technologies like virtiofs and vsocket has simplified the code of the kernel. For example, the stack TCP/IP has been removed and only VSocket is supported. Also, the buffer-cache has been removed from the VFS. The VFS thus becomes just a wrapper for the virtiofs driver. The drivers for emulated devices have been also removed, e.g., e1000, ne2000. I have also removed drivers like virtio-net and virtio-block, which are currently not used. This results in a minimalist unikernel that focuses on virtiofs and vsocket, i.e., ToroMicroVM. I did a refactoring of the VirtIO driver by putting the code that is independent from the devices into VirtIO.pas. This eases the adding of new virtio-drivers and eliminates code duplication. Currently, the kernel has ~ 13KLoC, which is about 6KLoC less than Torokernel (~19KLoC). User can still use the old ToroKernel by just checking out the tag ToroKernel. In the future, I may simply fork the project and renamed ToroMicroVM.
Matias
