Hi Antti,

I drew a figure to try to understand the picture.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ccu3dqq5vwodts/rumpkernel.gif?dl=0

At Sun, 05 Apr 2015 23:38:24 +0000,
Antti Kantee wrote:

> The other separation we gain is independence between the rumprun 
> unikernel and the rump kernel.  Yes, that makes sense ;)

I think I'm not understanding what is rumprun + unikernel
here. Is rumprun unikernel #3 + #5 + #6 or something else ?

> Purely theoretically speaking *winkwink*, if some other OS besides 
> NetBSD were to be structured to run on top of the rump kernel hypercall 
> interface (i.e. turned into an anykernel), and a suitable libc were to 
> also be available, that alternative OS could be offered as a 
> more-or-less drop-in replacement of the core of the rumprun unikernel.

got the point.

-- Hajime


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