<p>Virtualization sucks, because it makes it difficult for an application to get the most out of its underlying infrastructure. And so a startup staffed by the originators of the KVM hypervisor wants to change that with an ambitious open source project called OSv.</p><p>The OSv "cloud operating system" was announced by Cloudius Systems on Monday, and sees chief technology officer (and creator of KVM) Avi Kivity, and chief executive (and former KVM product manager) Dor Laor, create a software stack tuned to host a single app that does away with many layers of abstraction.</p><p>"OSv is useful for draining the best performance out of your CPU cycles while doing it in the most convenient way possible," Laor tells The Register.</p><p>OSv bundles an app, application server, and Java Virtual Machine into a hypervisor that sits on top of hardware no Linux OS needed.</p><p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/17/cloudius_systems_osv_cloud_software/">Keep reading...</a></p>