OSv

OSv
Developer	Cloudius Systems
Written in	C++
Working state	Stable
Source model	Open source
Initial release	September 16, 2013; 12 years ago
Marketing target	Cloud computing
Available in	Multilingual
Platforms	x86-64 using the KVM, Xen, VMware, and VirtualBox hypervisors. (arm64 on KVM is under development)
Kernel type	Unikernel
Userland	POSIX, Java, Ruby
Default user interface	CLI, web
License	BSD license
Official website	osv.io

OSv (stylized OS^v) is a cloud computing focused^[1] computer operating system released on September 16, 2013. It is a special-purpose operating system built to run as a guest on top of a virtual machine, thus it does not include drivers for bare-metal hardware. It is a unikernel, designed to run a single Linux executable or an application written in one of the supported runtime environments (such as Java).^[2] For this reason, it does not support a notion of users (it's not a multiuser system) or processes - everything runs in the kernel address space.^[3] Using a single address space removes some of the time-consuming operations associated with context switching.^[4] It uses large amounts of code from the FreeBSD operating system, in particular the network stack and the ZFS file system. OSv can be managed using a REST Management API and an optional command-line interface written in Lua.