binsquare

3 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

I use a tool called linzumi for this

8 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

yes to both, here's the example for running docker(indirectly, devcontainers) inside smolvm:

https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/blob/main/examples/d...

binsquare

8 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

the underlying vmm is libkrun: https://github.com/libkrun/libkrun is battle tested and used for podman.

It provides kernel isolation for running untrusted code which is a security boundary that traditional containers can't guarantee.

I'm engaged with a third party security penetration company for their review, and will be happy to share it publicly when it is available.

binsquare

8 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

smol machines is a virtual machine, akin to firecracker but designed to run locally as well

It also has container-inages support built-in with crun so you can create a VM with a container running by default.

You can also just... run docker inside of it.

binsquare

8 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

author of smol machines here, it has no relation to firecracker.

It runs ontop of the libkrun vmm forked with optimizations, which is the underlying lib powering podman as well.

open source, will contribute upstream when possible: https://github.com/smol-machines/libkrun

binsquare

10 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

Sony also used to mock digital only approaches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA

Now at a time when memory and storage prices are at an all time high - they pull a move that directly hurts the customer.

binsquare

10 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

Yep, I needed to go deeper down the stack in order to get to the lightweight optimizations I needed.

binsquare

10 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

I build a local, cross platform virtual machine for this purpose: https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm

binsquare

12 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

Fixed and released in v1.3.1: https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/pull/497

binsquare

13 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

smolpi looks great!

and smolvm does clean up ephemeral runs if the machine run exits gracefully. I'll take a deeper look into this edge case and fix it today.

binsquare

13 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

I made a lightweight vm specifically for this use case: https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm

binsquare

14 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

Would like to see this! Wonder how you got GUI support working because with vulkan support - you effectively enable running games cross platform

binsquare

14 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

Confirming, I worked directly on fargate.

Fargate does not use firecracker. It was used for some internal workloads but was being migrated off at the end of 2025.

binsquare

15 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

I designed my take to basically eliminate the concept of vm being a rigid box of cpu/memory with CPU oversubscription and virtio-ballooning on memory + sparse ext4.

That way it can be elastic in CPU, memory and somewhat disk.

How far are you on your take?

binsquare

15 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

check this out https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm

will have a hosted platform soon with GPU support (vulkan)

binsquare

20 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

author of smolmachines here,

CUDA support is possible based on a cursory dive. I'll keep you posted on it

ref: https://thevirtualhorizon.com/2024/05/31/how-to-configure-th...

binsquare

20 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

Author of a free open source alternative to slicer, based on a fork of libkrun (not firecracker based) that runs locally across wsl, macOS, and Linux natively.

https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm

binsquare

25 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

Would highly recommend running any repo in an isolated environment like a vm

binsquare

28 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

this sentence hurts to read

binsquare

30 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

I agree with this - queues may not be the end all solution but it is a valuable tool in our kit.

And in the right situations, it can be enough.

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