>Virtual machines are often seen as slow, expensive, bloated and outdated. by whom? I tend to loathe firecracker posts because theyre all just thinly veiled a

>Virtual machines are often seen as slow, expensive, bloated and outdated. by whom? I tend to loathe firecracker posts because theyre all just thinly veiled ads for Amazon services. Firecracker is not included in the standard linux KVM/QEMU duo and has sparse documentation. you cannot deploy a firecracker image like a traditional VM. in fact there are no tools to assist in creating a firecracker VM, and the filesystem for the VM must be EXT4. TL;DR: this is all fun stuff if youre 200% cloud, but most companies run a ton of on-prem vms as well.