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IshKebab • today at 3:50 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Is this a unikernel? Your ASCII art diagram is broken.


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monocasa • today at 6:18 PM

It's an exokernel. It's kind of like if you modified a hypervisor specifically for running unikernels instead of classic VMs.

boguscoder • today at 5:08 PM

Fwiw diagram renders OKay in Brave on iOS

convolvatron • today at 4:54 PM

having looked at the briefly, is really a kernel that's meant to take system calls. I think the unikernel terminology is kinda broken. it's explicitly pared down to talk to a hypervisor rather than supporting a lot of hardware drivers. is a unikernel something you link in like a library? then its not. is a unikernel something that's intended to support a single process? then sure.