Ask HN: What's the difference between a unikernel and an exokernel?
Personally I can&#x27;t tell much. It seems exokernels were a prime research interest from MIT&#x27;s work starting in the mid-90s, before at some point they went off the radar into the 21st century.<p>Now the idea of a unikernel is emerging with the name being unique, but conceptually it strikes me as a set of libOS packages meant to be run as a linked application under a bare metal hypervisor.<p>Then it seems like more of a divergence in the proposed use cases than any significant architectural differences.<p>Any views on this? Will it take off or just become another novelty?