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You can use QEmu snapshots to start a VM in under a second (but more than 125ms). I used this in 2009 for an IRC bot that safely evaluated arbitrary shell comm
by koala_man 6y ago
You can use QEmu snapshots to start a VM in under a second (but more than 125ms).
I used this in 2009 for an IRC bot that safely evaluated arbitrary shell commands for demonstration purposes, and a fork thereof is still chugging along to this day.
https://github.com/geirha/shbot https://github.com/geirha/shbot
- bonzini 6y agoQEMU can start a VM quite quickly: https://asciinema.org/a/jlTamarDTOVpO9wYAjXcnNZZt https://asciinema.org/a/jlTamarDTOVpO9wYAjXcnNZZt For a generic build like you'll find in a Linux distro, QEMU startup is slow mostly because it links to dozens of shared libraries (103 on Fedora 33).