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I am also curious how SmolBSD micro VMs compare to unikernels as the benefits/use cases sound similar What are the differences?
by anentropic 1y ago
I am also curious how SmolBSD micro VMs compare to unikernels as the benefits/use cases sound similar
What are the differences?
- myaccountonhn 1y agoCompared to say MirageOS, you have access to a "full" unix system. So anything that is available on NetBSD is also available on smolBSD. It's also very easy to use, I tried it and managed to set up a small portable development environment in 5 minutes. You can use SmolBSD to build a full-blown OS should you want to, or just use it to build and distribute an app like you would with docker. It can also be used if you have a serverless-like workload where you need to spin up VMs extremely fast.