Not so new age... but in IRC, the evalbot in #bash, did use something similar with QEMU: > Initially, Qemu is booted and its state is saved. On each evaluated

Not so new age... but in IRC, the evalbot in #bash, did use something similar with QEMU: > Initially, Qemu is booted and its state is saved. On each evaluated command, this state is loaded (giving a usable shell in less than one second), a command is fed on stdin and the output read on stdout. https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/evalbot/ https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/evalbot/