Congratulations to Alexander Jung, Michał Król and Torsten Runge, who prototyped a Mininet node class for launching unikernels - small application-specific kernel images, basically an application linked with a library OS, ClickOS being one example - and ended up placing in the SIGCOMM 2018 Hackathon!
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2018/hackathon.html
In their case they used Rumprun as the unikernel system and qemu/kvm to launch it:
- http://github.com/nderjung/mininet (Branch:
devel/rump) - http://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun/
- http://unikernel.org
They are planning on continuing to work on it, so I hope we can get something simple and useful running and perhaps added to Mininet!