[dundarious]

Absolutely. But I think I'm correct in saying if today I wanted to play a game shipped as a unikernel, it would be pretty difficult to have the game and spotify running. First we need a spotify unikernel, then we need people to accept having to use the new unikernel version of spotify just when they play the game(s), maybe get used to the spotify unikernel not having access to graphics hardware, etc. Or we run spotify in a traditional OS in the hypervisor and lose all the benefits we were shooting for in the first place.

Technically all manageable, but that wasn't the aspect I was focusing on, rather the reality that we couldn't just do this today, or even really all that soon.

Alternatively, PCs become games consoles when running games, and you just can't do multitasking, just like you mostly can't on a PS2, etc. Honestly, I think this would be the most likely outcome if games went down this road.

[pjmlp]

In a way it is a return to the days of playing games in 8 and 16 bit platforms. :)