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eyberg on Jan 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Autonomous Rust Unikernels in Google Cloud

That it can recover by itself. It's a bit more than just 'auto-restart' (as mentioned in the article) since it's an entire vm that is restarting versus a process and it's not the same as restarting a linux vm.

perlpimp on Jan 11, 2020 [–]

so this is LXC based or is it something else? trying to figure this out as well.

eyberg on Jan 11, 2020 | | [–]

Nope, no linux. https://github.com/nanovms/nanos is a new kernel designed to run a single (linux) application as a virtual machine.

perlpimp on Jan 11, 2020 | | [–]

https://ma.ttias.be/what-is-a-unikernel/ found this.

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