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The Hurd is actually older than Linux now at a ripe age of 32, although I think it was Mendel Rosenblaum that said "hypervisors/machine monitors were microkerne
by eyberg 5y ago
The Hurd is actually older than Linux now at a ripe age of 32, although I think it was Mendel Rosenblaum that said "hypervisors/machine monitors were microkernels done right".
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos05/final_papers/full_papers/hand/hand.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos05/final_papers/fu...
- SubjectToChange 5y agoModern hypervisors are more or less modeled on microkernels, not the other way around. Microkernels are just naturally a good fit for hypervisors, hence why nearly all commercial microkernels have an embedded hypervisor solution.