I fully agree with the statement "to make hypervisors work as an app orchestration platform", although imo the real hack is using two full blown general purpose

I fully agree with the statement "to make hypervisors work as an app orchestration platform", although imo the real hack is using two full blown general purpose operating systems to run a single application which is precisely what most people are doing when deploying to the various clouds today. Unikernels have many advantages and one is removing the complexity of managing the guest vm. People really haven't had the option of removing this complexity since creating a new guest os is time-consuming, expensive and highly technical work. When you have a guest that knows it is virtualized and can concentrate on just that one workload you can get a much better experience.