I skimmed the paper, but the premise makes sense in some scenarios. I don't think unikernels have quite taken off as they were hyped a few years ago, but in gen

I skimmed the paper, but the premise makes sense in some scenarios. I don't think unikernels have quite taken off as they were hyped a few years ago, but in general, micro VMs are quite more usable nowadays. I recently gave Firecracker a try, via the friendlier interface of Ignite[1], and was pleasantly surprised how quick it was to start a VM from a Docker image, and how little resources it used. The UX is pretty much on par with Docker, yet gives much more flexibility, control, and of course, security. I wish there was a competitor to QubesOS that uses KVM, and is a bit friendlier and more polished. Is there such a distro? [1]: https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite