Arrakis doesn't eliminate memory protection or process isolation, nor does it give applications direct hardware access. It takes advantage of modern hardware vi

Arrakis doesn't eliminate memory protection or process isolation, nor does it give applications direct hardware access. It takes advantage of modern hardware virtualization capabilities to present certain virtual devices to the guest applications, eliminating the kernel from the I/O path for critical operations like receiving a packet. Read this paper: http://arrakis.cs.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/arrakis-tr-ver2.pdf http://arrakis.cs.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/...