If a server crashes, the kernel can restart that component ratherthan having the entire system die or fall into a seriously degradedmode. Advocates of the monolithic kernel note that the microkernel ...

The Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate in 1999 1992 is a big example of the arguments between microkernel and monolithic kernel designs. I’m personally part of the microkernel camp.

The microkernel zealot believes that several cooperating system processes should take over the monolithic kernel's traditional jobs. These several system processes are isolated from each other with ...

Here we are, 14 years after the death of Workplace OS and Microsoft’s return to the monolithic kernel and what do you know, hardware performance improvements have been considerable.

Security Security can be the area of most significant difference between a hypervisor and a separation microkernel with a virtualization layer.

Microkernel designs face the challenge of dealing with the overhead of inter-process communication (IPC) between user-space servers and the kernel.