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Build a Firecracker microVM from a container image

4 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2022-04-05 · latest 2025-12-11

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  1. …/sys etc filesystems and boot up with Firecracker - using a container image as a rootfs.. GitHub https://github.com/alexellis/firecracker-init-lab Blog post: https://actuated.com/blog/firecracker-container-lab
    comment by alexellisuk · 2025-12-11 · in Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program
  2. I like this resource for starting a VM from a container image: https://github.com/alexellis/firecracker-init-lab
    comment by doakes · 2024-01-16 · in A NetBSD/amd64 guest can now boot in 18ms
  3. …Firecracker through my own content and products - a lab to convert a Docker image to a microVM - https://github.com/alexellis/firecracker-init-lab A deep-dive webinar on Linux internals and microVMs with myself and Richard Case - we've…
    comment by alexellisuk · 2023-06-18 · in I built my own learning-by-doing platform