Comment by linsomniac
10 hours ago
I feel like there's a potentially large audience for a kernel that targets running in a VM. For a lot of workloads, a simple VM kernel could be a win.
10 hours ago
I feel like there's a potentially large audience for a kernel that targets running in a VM. For a lot of workloads, a simple VM kernel could be a win.
How is that different from Linux with all virtio drivers? (You can just not compile real hardware drivers)
I would imagine that virtualized device drivers would have a well-defined api and vastly simplified logic.
Shouldn't we start building hardware that have a builtin translation layer that makes them driveable by virtio drivers themselves? At least for the most capabilities?
I imagine they do. But given that Linux has those simple drivers, why not use them?
This is already the reality today with native cloud computing, managed runtimes.
It doesn't matter how the language gets deployed, if the runtime is on a container, a distroless container, or directly running on an hypervisor.
The runtime provides enough OS like services for the programming language purposes.
this x1000
Provided you have virtio support you are ticking a lot of boxes already.