runtime-cli

Command line tools for runtime.js.

Installation

npm install -g runtime-cli

Usage

USAGE: runtime <command> [<args>]

Commands:
  start         Quickly start runtime.js VM using current directory
  watch         Watch current directory and automatically restart runtime.js VM
  pack          Package specified directory into ramdisk bundle
  run           Run runtime.js VM using specified ramdisk bundle
  show          Print VM output or log
  mkimg         Easily create a disk image for use with runtime.js
  help          Print this usage help

Getting Started

To setup a project simply install runtimejs package as a dependency. It doesn't need to be require()-d anywhere, just make sure it exists in node_modules.

mkdir project
cd project
npm install runtimejs
echo "console.log('ok')" > index.js

Run project in QEMU VM:

runtime start

Or let it watch directory for changes and restart QEMU automatically:

runtime watch

Commands

start, watch and run commands are very similar and have pretty much the same list of arguments. They all launch runtime.js in the QEMU VM.

USAGE: runtime start [<args>]
(Quickly start runtime.js VM using current directory)

Arguments:
  --net         Enable network (value can be "none", "user", "tap" or
                "bridge", defaults to "user")
  --netdump     Save network activity to a file
  --kvm         Enable Linux KVM (much faster virtualization)
  --curses      Use text-mode graphics
  --port        Redirect TCP/UDP connections on the host port to the runtime.js
  --append      Append string to runtime.js command line
  --dry-run     Test input but do not launch the VM
  --verbose     Output extra info like VM command line
  --virtio-rng  Enable VIRTIO-RNG entropy source for the runtime.js
  --nographic   Disable graphics, run in command line mode
  --kernel      Specify custom kernel binary file to use
  --local       Download the kernel locally (i.e. in the module's directory)

pack packages directory into ramdisk/initrd bundle. This is useful if you'd like to ship compiled bundle somewhere and don't want to run it locally.

USAGE: runtime pack [<args>] <directory>
(Package specified directory into ramdisk bundle)

  <directory>   Directory to package

Arguments:
  --list-files  List packaged files only
  --ignore      Add file ignore pattern
  --entry       Set entry point import/require string (defaults to "/")
  --add-dir     Add a directory into the package (format: <path> or <path>:<package-path>)

mkimg creates a FAT disk image for use with runtime.js. On some systems, you may need to use root/administrator privileges. Depends on qemu-img on all platforms, hdiutil and diskutil on macOS (builtin), losetup and mkfs.msdos on Linux (included on most distributions), and diskpart on Windows (bulitin).

USAGE: runtime mkimg [<args>] <filename>
(Easily create a disk image for use with runtime.js)

  <filename>    The filename for the newly created disk image including the extension,
                default to "disk.img"

Arguments:
  --size        Size of the new image, defaults to 1 gigabyte. See `qemu-img --help` for sizes.
                Must be >= 33792 kb (~33 mb)
  --label       Label of the new image, defaults to "RUNTIMEJS"

Environment Variables

While there is a proposal to add envirionment variables from the command line, there is currently no officially supported process for passing them into a runtime instance. However, there is a work around that will allow the passing of Kernel Command Line arguments instead.

runtime run --append <your env args> initrd

To access this variable in your code use the following:

const wholeString = __SYSCALL.getCommandLine();
const arrayOfArguments = wholestring.split(' ');
arrayOfArguments[i]; // where i is the index of your argument in the array

Completion

Enables tab-completion for all commands.

runtime completion >> ~/.bashrc
runtime completion >> ~/.zshrc

License

Apache License, Version 2.0