(mirage dev here) Not true -- you can run Mirage Xen kernels directly as EC2 guest VMs by using their AKI feature to boot a custom kernel. Instead of a custom

(mirage dev here) Not true -- you can run Mirage Xen kernels directly as EC2 guest VMs by using their AKI feature to boot a custom kernel. Instead of a custom Linux kernel, just boot a unikernel and don't bother with user space :-) Go to http://github.com/mirage/mirage http://github.com/mirage/mirage and check out scripts/ec2.sh for a shell script that automates this (needs to be more user friendly, patches welcome)