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It's beyond experiments now and there are clear uses for such things. For example, a recent post describes using MirageOS to build a firewall VM [1]. There are also network security/intrusion-detection systems [2].

There are a number of ways to build unikernels and they're not all OCaml (which is just MirageOS) -- http://unikernel.org is trying to bring these together.

[1] http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2016/01/01/a-unikernel-firewal...

[2] https://galois.com/project/cyberchaff/

Don't forget standard posix stuff with rumprun.

Yes, of course. I should also have linked to the Unikernel+Docker demo [1], which is taking legacy software and using Rump Kernels and the Docker toolchain to deploy unikernels (to show how all these things can create a multiplier effect in terms of benefits).

It would be great to get a list of live unikernel deployments listed somewhere to address questions like this when they come up.

[1] http://unikernel.org/blog/2015/unikernels-meet-docker/

They're pretty cutting edge still but not that experimental. I think we'll see unikernels explode in popularity towards the end of 2016 or in 2017.

"Who is "we" ?"

Hipsters.