Unikernels: the rise of the virtual library operating system

  • Authors:
  • Anil Madhavapeddy;David J. Scott

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cambridge;XenServer virtualization platform

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

What if all the software layers in a virtual appliance were compiled within the same safe, high-level language framework?