Re:Unikernels: No Longer an Academic Exercise?
by corysama on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @11:06AM
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1st. It’s not going to solve that. But, I don’t think solving that is a goal of this approach.
2nd. In a pure-unikernel approach, applications can’t steal from each other because there is only one application. Isolation is left to the VM. The goal is to get rid of the redundant isolation of running a multiplexing OS over a multiplexing VM. In the as-processes model, the Linux kernel still provides sandboxing. The goal there is to be a bridge between traditional and unikernel development.
3rd. The goal is to boil down to just virtualization and only the libraries specifically needed by a single specific application.
2nd. In a pure-unikernel approach, applications can’t steal from each other because there is only one application. Isolation is left to the VM. The goal is to get rid of the redundant isolation of running a multiplexing OS over a multiplexing VM. In the as-processes model, the Linux kernel still provides sandboxing. The goal there is to be a bridge between traditional and unikernel development.
3rd. The goal is to boil down to just virtualization and only the libraries specifically needed by a single specific application.