smolvm

What people said

• “It depends on your threat model but I think it's a good reminder either way. I recently discovered SmolVM < > and it looks like a pretty good sweet spot for usability and isolation. There are so many sandboxing technologies to pick from and…”

• “At first, I had thought what is its point, but this post made me wonder about the fact that I myself don't use sandboxes (even though I very much think that they are a good option and recommend it to other people!) I tried to use smolvm on macOS and although its really great b…”

• “maintainer, I would recommend trying out: It has network filtering + placeholders for secrets. OSS, no logins needed”

• “Author of a free open source alternative to slicer, based on a fork of libkrun (not firecracker based) that runs locally across wsl, macOS, and Linux natively.”

• “Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (499 points)”