runV is a hypervisor-based runtime for OCF.

runV is compatible with OCF. However, due to the difference between hypervisors and containers, the following sections of OCF don't apply to runV:

• Namespace
• Capability
• Device
• linux and mount fields in OCI specs are ignored

The current release of runV supports the following hypervisors:

• KVM (QEMU 2.0 or later)
• Xen (4.5 or later)
• VirtualBox (Mac OS X)

The current release of runV supports the following distros:

• Ubuntu 64bit
  • 15.04 Vivid
  • 14.10 Utopic
  • 14.04 Trusty
• CentOS 64bit
  • 7.0
  • 6.x (upgrade to QEMU 2.0)
• Fedora 20-22 64bit
• Debian 64bit
  • 8.0 jessie
  • 7.x wheezy (upgrade to QEMU 2.0)

# create a 'github.com/hyperhq' in your GOPATH/src
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperhq
git clone https://github.com/hyperhq/runv/
cd runv
./autogen.sh
./configure --without-xen
make
sudo make install

To run a OCF image, execute runv with the OCF JSON format file as argument, or have a config.json file in CWD.

Also, a kernel and initrd images are needed too. We recommend you to build them from HyperStart repo. If not specified, runV will try to load the kernel and initrd.img files from CWD.

runv --kernel kernel --initrd initrd.img
# ps aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.1   4352   232 ttyS0    S+   05:54   0:00 /init
root         2  0.0  0.5   4448   632 pts/0    Ss   05:54   0:00 sh
root         4  0.0  1.6  15572  2032 pts/0    R+   05:57   0:00 ps aux

Please check the runC example to get the container rootfs. https://github.com/opencontainers/runc#examples

And you can get a sample OCF config.json at https://github.com/opencontainers/runc#ocf-container-json-format or simply execute runc spec.