Re:Unikernels: No Longer an Academic Exercise?
by mato on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @11:43AM
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> In the former scenario, the host provides things that look like CPUs, NICs and things that look like block devices, with no high-level abstractions (e.g. threads, sockets, and filesystems).
To add to this, with the approach we're taking with Solo5 [1], hardware virtualization is only used as one possible sandbox/isolation mechanism. If you look into the code, you'll find that the abstractions presented to the unikernel by the hvt tender are much thinner than those presented to a guest OS by a traditional VMM (e.g. KVM/QEMU).
To add to this, with the approach we're taking with Solo5 [1], hardware virtualization is only used as one possible sandbox/isolation mechanism. If you look into the code, you'll find that the abstractions presented to the unikernel by the hvt tender are much thinner than those presented to a guest OS by a traditional VMM (e.g. KVM/QEMU).
[1] https://github.com/Solo5/solo5