unikernel

Noun

 * 1)  A specialised, fixed-purpose machine image which can run directly on hardware or a hypervisor without an operating system such as Linux.
 * 2) * 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 9783869563602), 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.
 * 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.