The RustyHermit Unikernel

Re:The RustyHermit Unikernel by lumost on Sunday January 24, 2021 @09:16PM (#25898318)

I'd be curious how long such a kernel takes to boot. There could be useful applications in container hosting.

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Re:The RustyHermit Unikernel by nderjung on Monday January 25, 2021 @04:32AM (#25901238)

10s of milliseconds (fig. 4)[0]

[0]: https://pub.nderjung.net/papers/emsoft20.pdf

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Re:The RustyHermit Unikernel by monocasa on Sunday January 24, 2021 @09:33PM (#25898396)

Measured in milliseconds typically.

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Re:The RustyHermit Unikernel by viraptor on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:54AM (#25900133)

There was an example running on erlang-on-xen (later renamed ling) which spawned a vm per request. When not hammered by traffic from aggregator sites, it could respond in a few milliseconds.

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Re:The RustyHermit Unikernel by dizz on Monday January 25, 2021 @07:21AM (#25902328)

Jitsu? https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi15/nsdi15...

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Re:The RustyHermit Unikernel by felipehuici on Monday January 25, 2021 @08:10AM (#25902705)

No, it was not Jitsu. Jitsu is based on MiragOS/OCaml, Erlang-on-Xen was also a Xen-based unikernel like MirageOS but was (as you can guess) Erlang specific. I think you can now find it at https://github.com/cloudozer/ling .

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Re:The RustyHermit Unikernel by felipehuici on Monday January 25, 2021 @08:12AM (#25902727)

A hello world unikernel was reported to take 4 ms a few years back (http://cnp.neclab.eu/projects/lightvm/lightvm.pdf). Here's a more recent project: http://www.unikraft.org/ .

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