Sounds like Mirage OS / exokernels / unikernels, where the app is compiled to run directly on the VM talking to paravirtualized APIs.
Re:Microsoft announces Hyper-V Containers
by walterbell on Friday April 10, 2015 @05:34AM
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Is there an architecture diagram that shows the boundary between VMM, OS, container and storage layers?
Hope that helps?