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Cool, but arguably a layering violation. It's the job of the operating system.

• astrodust 11y ago
  Define "operating system"? It's not crazy to think that you might have another layer inside your VM, not unlike how a hypervisor was one layer that didn't exist outside of mainframes until adapted for regular computers.
• pjmlp 11y ago
  In a world of unikernels and library OSes, that is the job of the runtime.
  • andor 11y ago
    Not necessarily. One of the ideas behind unikernels is very fast boot time, so that you can start a new instance for every tenant. Another idea is reduced complexity...
    • pjmlp 11y ago
      In which the OS and language runtime are the same thing, e.g. Mirage OS.