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Do Unikernels even have real value?

Do Unikernels even have real value?

Posted Jul 30, 2017 10:05 UTC (Sun) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Do Unikernels even have real value? by alonz
Parent article: IncludeOS: a unikernel for C++ applications

The one difference is hardware protection. You now have the hypervisor in ring -1, the guest kernel(s) in ring 0 and userspace(s) in respective ring 1s. Each with different hardware privilege levels.


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Do Unikernels even have real value?

Posted Jul 31, 2017 14:29 UTC (Mon) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]

For hypervisors in general, you are right. But unikernels eschew user space, so you are only left with rings -1 and 0…


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