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LCE: The failure of operating systems and how we can fix it

LCE: The failure of operating systems and how we can fix it

Posted Nov 16, 2012 18:27 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: LCE: The failure of operating systems and how we can fix it by tbird20d
Parent article: LCE: The failure of operating systems and how we can fix it

The problem is that the kernel is not lightweight.

When you run a separate kernel to manage one app, you now have multiple layers of caching for example.

'fixing' this gets very quickly to where it's at least as much complexity.


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LCE: The failure of operating systems and how we can fix it

Posted Nov 17, 2012 16:47 UTC (Sat) by tom.prince (subscriber, #70680) [Link]

There are a number of options to have light-weight bare-metal applications running in the VM, rather than full operating systems.

http://www.openmirage.org/ and https://github.com/GaloisInc/HaLVM are tools for doing this that come to mind.

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