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by akavel 3906 days ago
Actually, I've asked my question after trying to do some basic reading on my own, but it only deepened my confusion, unfortunately. I vaguely remembered that "rump kernels" seemed to mean "assume we're on Xen/KVM/... and make use of that", or a notion of "library kernels" -- one of those two, though not 100% sure which one (or both?). But then from some NetBSD docs/wikis/... it started to look to me like they're adding another term "anykernel" here and there, and then naming with that some microkernel-like stuff, like mounting stuff in userspace, but then not sure why naming the option as "rump", etc -- and all of that made me more and more confused, instead of less. And that's what made me ask here.