Re: [Publicity] rump kernel and Rumprun unikernel proposed post

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

(Thanks Russ for sorting out my login)

Great post! Some quick thoughts from vacation:

- In the "the goal of rump was not unikernels", it might be worth pointing out 
that Rump provides a long term baseline for other unikernel projects that have 
been focussing on the high level structure.  For example, Martin's work on 
Mirage+rump now lets us slowly deprecate the old MiniOS runtime in favour of 
Rump, and get KVM and baremetal support in addition to Xen, and focus on the 
"new horizons" rather than low level device driver hackery.

- Link to the third-party applications Rump github repo?

- A TL;DR with some hrefs into the rump kernel book on some of the terminology 
would be useful for the more casual reader.  You mention in one blog post -- 
rump kernel, unikernel and anykernel -- quite a lot to take in one post :) Your 
FOSDEM 2013 interview on the topic is good: 
https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/interviews/2013-antii-kantee/ or your New 
Directions in Operating Systems 2014 talk.

- if you have time, linking to the xen-devel mailing list posts from the 
archives would be really useful.  There were some great threads there that you 
reference.

- nowhere does the article mention what sort of existing applications rump 
kernels are bad at -- worth mentioning that fork-heavy applications don't do so 
well?  Might be out of scope.

- As a random aside, 2007 seems to have been the year that lots of projects 
started.  I remember sitting in a room in Cambridge with Andrew Tolmach and 
Adam Wick in Jan 2007 and using MiniOS to create the first Mirage and HalVM 
kernels with networking (just ethernet) as well.  Trying to dig out an online 
reference to that meeting -- ISTR we had a photo of the whiteboard somewhere!

-a

> On 30 Jul 2015, at 01:22, Antti Kantee <pooka@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to post to the Xen blog about rump kernels and the Rumprun unikernel 
> ... finally (it's more or less exactly 2 years to date since I first started 
> working on rump kernels on top of Xen).  The main intent of the post is to 
> introduce things to the Xen blog readership so that later posts on the same 
> subject area can simply refer to the high level info offered by this post.
> 
> https://blog.xenproject.org/?p=10870&preview=true
> 
> (I hope I got that preview URL correct)
> 
>  - antti
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