unikernel

== English == === Etymology === From uni- (“single-”) +‎ kernel. === Noun === unikernel (plural unikernels) (operating systems) A specialised, fixed-purpose machine image which can run directly on hardware or a hypervisor without an operating system such as Linux. Coordinate term: microkernel 2016, Bartok, David , Walt, Estee van der, Lindemann, Jan , Eschrig, Johannes , Plauth, Max , Proceedings of the Third HPI Cloud Symposium "Operating the Cloud" 2015, Universitätsverlag Potsdam (→ISBN), page 37: The general idea behind unikernel systems is not entirely new, as it builds up on top of the concept of library operating systems such as exokernel or Nemesis. === Further reading === unikernel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia