alt Hacker NewsFirecracker can run ordinary linux/GPOS vms and unikernels.
Unikernels can run inside of firecracker.
Unikernels are focused on single applications whereas general purpose operating systems are focused on multiple applications.
This is focused on running functions embedded inside a host program. So it is fairly different than other things out there and in a class of its own.
> each function request to have its own hypervisor for protection.
They are talking about isolating serverless functions, not host program functions. In that sense, it is exactly what Firecracker does for lambda functions