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Why not run a proper virtual machine?

• agrounds 6mo ago
  I dunno, why own a car when you could ride your bike instead? They’re just different things and people may choose to use one over the other for a variety of reasons.
• waz0wski 6mo ago
  That's the direction container runtimes are trending Amazon has been doing it with Firecracker for a while and Kata containers is another popular one https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers
  • anygivnthursday 6mo ago
    I think Google took a different approach with gVisor and limited userspace kernel interface, tradeoffs...
  • matheusmoreira 6mo ago
    I did the same. Claude coded my own solution. https://github.com/matheusmoreira/virtdev https://github.com/matheusmoreira/virtdev It's been working really well. Use it every day. Just make some machines and ssh in.
• throw0101c 6mo ago
  > Why not run a proper virtual machine? Extra 'overhead' and heaviness (perceived or real).
• ahknight 6mo ago
  The joys of running podman/docker on macOS: you can't help but run it in a hypervisor.