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Saved 2026-05-15 · Posted 2026-04-18 · Status: New
Docker solves "it works on my machine". SmolVM takes a different approach: just ship the entire machine. it packs your software into a single executable .smolmachine file that cold-starts in under a second using Hypervisor.framework on macOS or KVM on Linux via libkrun. Real hardware isolation, not container namespaces. Built by a former AWS Firecracker engineer. Live migration on the roadmap.
https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm
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Docker doesn't solve. It works on my machine it docker solves. I need to orchestrate this in a standard way and not have to spend time explaining to my devops team how it works. I would feel much better giving my devops team a config map or docker compose file than a random executable. Maybe your explanation is poor. Does this also package configs? How does it work as a Daemon (restart policy)? How does it support multi-environment? I'm going to go ahead and assume it has sha256 digests are those idemo idempotent.
hmm Docker? except you ship a much larger file that works on fewer hardware 😂
Why not use WASM or something
why tho ? what is the point ?
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Mac and Linux?
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