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I'm not sure what the applications/market for this is or could be, but I love the idea. Everything that goes "micro" I love dearly.
I probably got it wrong but I'd love to hear a more expert opinion on why/why not this could be used for security..
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> "What is too heavyweight is a VM image of a conventional operating system distribution with all of the baggage that it brings." Indeed. I didn't realise that Docker/Container folks had ever said VMs were too heavyweight. Is this linked anywhere? > "Would these fine-grained unikernels also run well on KVM, VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, or bhyve (FreeBSD's new VMM)?" We've been asked this before and for KVM at least, it just…
> Indeed. I didn't realise that Docker/Container folks had ever said VMs were too heavyweight. Is this linked anywhere? https://github.com/docker/docker#user-content-better-than-vm...
https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/fileform...
Using that you can store a whole filesystem at the URL instead of one file, and you also get synchronization mechanisms built in, so your endpoints can communicate with each other in a structured way that you control.. vs the undefined communication you will get between VM's if you try this with the VM architecture.
The next step is to compile it all to JS and just serve static files that boot in the browser! :) Something like http://bellard.org/jslinux/