Starnix is a component that runs Linux binaries on Fuchsia. Currently, starnix is highly experimental and can run only trivial programs.
Currently, we require a x86_64 host Linux system to run starnix.
In order to make starnix available in the system, we need to add starnix to the core component by adding the following line to //src/sys/core/meta/core.cml
, directly above the children
declaration:
include: [ "src/proc/bin/starnix/meta/core.shard.cml" ],
In order to run starnix, we need to build //src/proc
:
$ fx set core.x64 --with-base //src/proc,//src/proc:tests $ fx build
Run Fuchsia as normal, for example using fx serve
and fx emu -N
.
To monitor starnix, look for log messages with the starnix
tag:
fx log --tag starnix
To run a Linux binary, ask starnix to start a component that wraps the binary:
$ ffx starnix start fuchsia-pkg://fuchsia.com/hello_starnix#meta/hello_starnix.cm
If this is the first time you've used the ffx starnix
command, you might need to configure ffx
to enable the starnix
commands. Attempting to run the start
command should provide instructions for enabling the starnix
commands.
If everything is working, you should see some log messages like the following:
[00064.846853][33707][33709][starnix, starnix] INFO: main [00064.847640][33707][33709][starnix, starnix] INFO: start_component: fuchsia-pkg://fuchsia.com/hello_starnix#meta/hello_starnix.cm
Linux test binaries can be run using the starnix test runner. This can be done using the standard fx test
command:
$ fx test hello-starnix-test --output
You should see output like:
Running test 'fuchsia-pkg://fuchsia.com/hello-starnix-test#meta/hello_starnix_test.cm' [RUNNING] fuchsia-pkg://fuchsia.com/hello-starnix-test#meta/hello_starnix_test.cm [PASSED] fuchsia-pkg://fuchsia.com/hello-starnix-test#meta/hello_starnix_test.cm
In the device logs you should see output like:
[starnix, starnix_runner] INFO: main [starnix, starnix_runner] INFO: start_component: fuchsia-pkg://fuchsia.com/hello-starnix-test#meta/hello_starnix_test.cm [starnix, strace] INFO: 1(0x1, 0x35a3ca6000, 0xe, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) [starnix, starnix_runner::syscalls] INFO: write: hello starnix [starnix, strace] INFO: -> 0xe [starnix, strace] INFO: 60(0x0, 0x35a3ca6000, 0xe, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) [starnix, starnix_runner::syscalls] INFO: exit: error_code=0 [starnix, strace] INFO: -> 0x0