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Comment by causal

2 months ago

I've never used smolmachines but I'm curious; why this over a container?

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causal

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apitman  2 months ago

Containers are not security boundaries. Vulnerabilities in containers are much more common than in VMs.

chrisweekly  2 months ago

Kernel-level isolation is a significant security differentiator, for starters.

https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm#comparison

shows a good comparison table.

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