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
