Comment by chrisweekly
4 days ago
I liked Orbstack better than colima which was better than Docker Desktop. Then I found https://smolmachines.com's smolvm microvms.
4 days ago
I liked Orbstack better than colima which was better than Docker Desktop. Then I found https://smolmachines.com's smolvm microvms.
Fixed link: https://smolmachines.com/
thanks!
Since I came across orbstack that's the only one I use for docker on macOS
been using orbstack but this smol stuff is interesting
is this firecracker or total rewrite
author of smol machines here, it has no relation to firecracker.
It runs ontop of the libkrun vmm forked with optimizations, which is the underlying lib powering podman as well.
open source, will contribute upstream when possible: https://github.com/smol-machines/libkrun
Upthread the implication seems to be that smolmachines would be in some way a replacement for orbstack to run docker containers
But it seems more like a completely different way to run isolated workloads?
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good stuff man i just installed it and its super fast im just not sure is this really secure to run untrusted code i can't find any white papers
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Can smolmachines run devcontainers? K3d?
yes to both, here's the example for running docker(indirectly, devcontainers) inside smolvm:
https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/blob/main/examples/d...
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