You can also come up with more benefits by thinking alongs these lines, for example: the kernel doesn't need to keep track of which packets go to which process

You can also come up with more benefits by thinking alongs these lines, for example: the kernel doesn't need to keep track of which packets go to which process because there is only one process (the kernel itself). There could be a performance benefit thanks to this. > more minimal Which carries other benefits: boot time, memory overhead, etc. You could probably treat IncludeOS VMs like containers.