unikernelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

unikernel (複数形 unikernels)

1. (operating systems) A specialised, fixed-purpose machine image which can run directly on hardware or a hypervisor without an operating system such as Linux.

   Coordinate term: microkernel

   • 2016, Bartok, David , Walt, Estee van der, Lindemann, Jan , Eschrig, Johannes , Plauth, Max , Proceedings of the Third HPI Cloud Symposium "Operating the Cloud" 2015, Universitätsverlag Potsdam (→ISBN), page 37:

     The general idea behind unikernel systems is not entirely new, as it builds up on top of the concept of library operating systems such as exokernel or Nemesis.

   • 2017, Kai Hwang, Cloud Computing for Machine Learning and Cognitive Applications: A Machine Learning Approach, MIT Press (→ISBN), page 143:

     In the unikernel approach, a developer selects a minimal set of libraries from a modular stack which correspond to the OS constructs required for their application to run.

Further reading

• unikernel on Wikipedia.