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FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor

MacroRodent

Xen?

Wasn't the original (and by now ancient) Xen a microVm by this definition? It has a kernel modified to use only the services of the hypervisor. And also did cool things with the 386 architecture protection rings to implement a VM on an architecture that was at the time hostile to virtualization.

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