The Rumprun unikernel, based on the driver components offered by rump kernels, provides a means to run existing POSIX applications as unikernels on Xen. This post explains how we got here (it matters!), what sort of things can be solved today, and also a bit of what is in store
The Xen community was very interested in (and a little worried by!) the recent performance comparison of â€Baremetal, Virtual Box, KVM and Xenâ€, published by Phoronix, so I took it upon myself to find out what was going on. Upon investigation I found that the 3.0 Linux kernel
Henning Sprang, Mark Williamson, and I discussed the issue of people reporting bugs in the Bugzilla system with no guarantee that anyone was watching or working on the Bugzilla system. Several companies working on the Xen hypervisor are leveraging Bugzilla to track and monitor issues but there is no existing