Unikernels are software appliances transformed into standalone kernels with all core ("kernel") services like scheduler, network stack, file systems etc. provided as libraries and linked directly into the application. The resulting binary is then run directly in a VM or bare-metal.
In this talk we'll inspect the three pioneers in the field, note their differences and explore what lies just on the brink of tomorrow:
http://www.openmirage.org/ http://osv.io/ http://rumpkernel.org/