Modular unikernel designed to run applications securely on micro-VMs

These guys are really amazing. I have been following their work for quite some time, starting with my interest in unikernels and thus OSv. Take a look at Seastar (C*) [1] and ScyllaDB [2].

Some companies are powerhouses!

[1] http://seastar.io [2] https://www.scylladb.com

Could I, with reasonable effort, run such a VM on Qubes?

In particular: could it be made to interact correctly with the domU X server? Qubes is on Xen, and has its appVMs run an X server that operate on bitmaps that the domU copies to corresponding regions of its own framebuffer, and is handfed input events by the domU; similarly, sound and camera traffic, and network packets.

I am particularly thinking of e.g. a Firefox appVM that runs Firefox but not systemd; Or, transmission, or element-desktop. Running systemd, and a whole Linux kernel, in every appVM is a big drain on RAM.

So I guess I would need library renditions of the processes Qubes wants to run in its AppVMs, that start a thread when first called. Trick is how to get the app in; maybe it is an "apt" unikernel image that switches to the installed /usr/bin image after running once.

It needs more and better documentation

If maintainers are around: the memcached graphic on the benchmark page is broken. Would love to see some more benchmarks too!

The project doesn’t seem to be active