Patent 10983847 was granted and assigned to Red Hat on April, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of launching a unikernel comprises: identifying, by a kernel utilizing a set of system resources of a computing system, a unikernel to be launched in an exclusive mode; determining that the set of system resources of the computing system satisfies hardware requirements specified by configuration metadata of the unikernel; releasing, by the kernel, the set of system resources for use by the unikernel; launching the unikernel; and terminating the kernel.