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VM support for unikernels is literally a prerequisite for unikernel uptake, so that's hardly surprising, but coming from academia: if a highly niche market usin
by TheRealPomax 8y ago
VM support for unikernels is literally a prerequisite for unikernel uptake, so that's hardly surprising, but coming from academia: if a highly niche market using a thing still keeps it a mostly academic exercise, and this article does not contain anything that talks about how it has finally escaped the "mostly interesting to academics, and that handful of people who use it in their highly specialized or possibly instead just plain old 'someone once set it up and it's too critical to change now' systems".
- pjmlp 8y agoMicrosoft used their unikernel research (Drawbridge) to bring SQL Server into Linux. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/how-an-old-drawbridge-helped-microsoft-bring-sql-server-to-linux/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/how-a... It is also how they kind of implement secure kernel in the recent versions of Windows 10.