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L4Linux is just the usual Linux paravirtualized on top of one the L4 microkernels. We previously ran two instances of it on top of L4/Fiasco The problem with t
by shandor 5y ago
L4Linux is just the usual Linux paravirtualized on top of one the L4 microkernels. We previously ran two instances of it on top of L4/Fiasco
The problem with that is that you don't actually get that much benefits from the underlying microkernel. Linux is just the same old monolith, just better isolated from the other resources not exposed to this particular (para)virtualized kernel instance, so you end up isolating more or less complete systems from each other rather than getting the normal benefits of capability based microkernel architecture inside a single system.
Now that's not nothing of course, but not usually what people are after when they're hoping for a usable, modern microkernel system.