unikernel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A specialised, fixed-purpose machine image which can run directly on hardware or a hypervisor without an operating system such as Linux.

Word forms

unikernel unikernels

Etymology

From uni- (“single-”) + kernel.

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