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binsquare
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
I'm working on building a virtual machine that has the fast boot and portability of containers.
It's called a smol machine free and oss,
https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm
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Ah I think you posted on HN before. Good to see you again. I haven't gotten around to testing smol yet but the DirtyFrag / CopyFail stuff peeked my interest in it again.
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Yes I have! :D that's a great way to leverage hypervisor isolation to avoid those issues
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This is cool - thanks for sharing. I'd love to see a column for LXC in the comparison table (in the README).
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It's called a smol machine free and oss, https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm