Overview

Packaging of MySQL 5.6.29 for rumprun.

Experimental work in progress, may eat your data.

Please report success, failure or anything else to the Rump Kernel mailing list or IRC: http://wiki.rumpkernel.org/Info:-Community

Maintainer

• Martin Lucina, mato@rumpkernel.org
• Github: @mato

Patches

Patches required for cross-compilation are in the patches/ directory, and will be applied by the build process.

Instructions

Building requires an installation of NetBSD makefs (the version available as makefs on Debian-based distributions works fine).

You will also need an installation of the mysql client libraries and tools to connect to the mysqld unikernel.

Run make:

make

Bake the final unikernel image:

rumprun-bake xen_pv bin/mysqld.bin bin/mysqld

The default installation creates a single root-equivalent user, rump with no password, allowing connections from any host. Edit mysql_rump_bootstrap.sql to change this.

Examples

To start a Xen domU running mysqld, run (for example):

rumprun xen "$@" -M 128 -i \
    -b images/data.ffs,/data \
    -I xen0,xenif -W inet,static,10.0.0.10/24 \
    -- \
    bin/mysqld.bin \
        --defaults-file=/data/my.cnf --basedir=/data --user=daemon

To connect to the running mysqld on 10.0.0.10:

mysql -h 10.0.0.10 -u rump

To retrieve some server statistics:

mysqladmin -h 10.0.0.10 -u rump status

To shut down the mysql server:

mysqladmin -h 10.0.0.10 -u rump shutdown

The "shutdown" command will appear to hang, however the mysql unikernel will shut down (but see below).

Caveats

There is currently no way to shut down mysqld cleanly. While mysqladmin shutdown can be used to attempt a shutdown, due to issues with rumprun _exit() in MT processes the unikernel will not shut down.

As a workaround, this package currently disables threads with thread-handling=no-threads in my.cnf; this allows the mysqld process to exit and the unikernel to shut down, although the mysqladmin shutdown command still hangs.