> Firecracker is not a difficult project ...and Dropbox can be replaced with a few shellscripts + SFTP. Come on. Something like Firecracker has got to be both

> Firecracker is not a difficult project ...and Dropbox can be replaced with a few shellscripts + SFTP. Come on. Something like Firecracker has got to be both complex and extremely hard to get right. Complex because it has to deal with the ultimate in simultaneous state changes: a captive entire virtualized operating system. Hard to get right because it has a tremendous number of integration points with obscure and quirky external systems (KVM, Linux itself) at an extremely low level.