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- high-level abstractions such as (virtual) file systems. The idea behind exokernels is to force as few abstractions as possible on application developers...
- implement major functions such as file systems, network interfaces, etc. Exokernels communicate efficiently by normal subroutine calls. The hardware and all...
- nanokernels and exokernels are available, but are seldom used for production systems. The Xen hypervisor, for example, is an exokernel. In a monolithic...
- an unloaded module need not be stored in scarce random access memory. Exokernel Hybrid kernel Kernel (operating system) Microkernel Nanokernel Tanenbaum–Torvalds...
- meant to abstract this away. On exokernel based systems, the library is especially important as an intermediary. On exokernels, libraries shield user applications...
- hypervisor. The unikernel architecture builds on concepts developed by Exokernel and Nemesis in the late 1990s. In a library operating system, protection...
- categories are monolithic kernels and microkernels (with nanokernels and exokernels seen as more extreme versions of microkernels). The "hybrid" category...
- Architectures Exokernel Hybrid Microkernel Monolithic Multikernel vkernel Rump kernel Unikernel Components Device driver Loadable kernel module User space...
- OS-less bare metal. An anykernel is different in concept from microkernels, exokernels, partitioned kernels or hybrid kernels in that it tries to preserve the...
- support of NetBSD drivers to other kernel architectures, ranging from exokernels to monolithic kernels. NetBSD includes many enterprise features like iSCSI...