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OS-level virtualisation
A virtual kernel architecture (vkernel) is an operating system virtualisation paradigm where kernel code can be compiled to run in the user space, for example, to ease debugging of various kernel-level components, in addition to general-purpose virtualisation and compartmentalisation of system resources. It is used by DragonFly BSD in its vkernel implementation since DragonFly 1.7, having been first revealed in September 2006, and first released in the stable branch with DragonFly 1.8 in January 2007. Wikipedia →
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- Read the landmark paper: vKernel: Enhancing Container Isolation via Private Code and DataCited 9 times
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- Go sideways: Matthew DillonA closely related topic
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