Chad, it seems your thoughts on this match our own. Have you come across Unikernels [0], MirageOS [1] or Nymote [2]?<p>[0] <a href="http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2566628" rel="nofollow">http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2566628</a><p>[1] <a href="http://openmirage.org/" rel="nofollow">http://openmirage.org/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://nymote.org/" rel="nofollow">http://nymote.org/</a>