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…you only clone snapshots for a single tenant? [3] [1] https://github.com/self-actuated/actuated [2] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-go-sdk [3] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main...

comment by alexellisuk · 2022-09-02 · in We clone a running VM in 2 seconds

I don't believe Firecracker currently supports GPU (latest what I saw about it is here: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/issues/11... ). But I wouldn't be surprised if there's another MicroVM manager that would support…

comment by CompuIves · 2022-09-02 · in We clone a running VM in 2 seconds

…flag you can turn on), so you can make incremental snapshots of only the changed pages (more here: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main... ). In our case we changed Firecracker to use a shared mmap instead of an…

comment by CompuIves · 2022-09-02 · in We clone a running VM in 2 seconds

…`track_dirty_pages` and `enable_diff_snapshots` flags, which allow for incremental snapshotting: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main...

comment by conradev · 2022-09-02 · in We clone a running VM in 2 seconds

…CLI) as opposed to Firecracker which uses a downloaded kernel and rootfs and is managed via API ala https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main... . But I'm no expert, just my armchair take on things.

comment by kungfufrog · 2022-08-16 · in Krunvm – Create MicroVMs from OCI Images

If we were to support more runtimes, I think I'd go for Firecracker ( https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/ ) which is what AWS uses for lambdas

comment by theochampion · 2022-07-30 · in Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs

…cockpit-project/bots/commit/3cdbaa6d6765a... https://github.com/edwardspec/mediawiki-aws-s3/issues/49 https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/pull/3006 https://github.com/snapview/tungstenite-rs/pull/267

comment by est31 · 2022-06-09 · in Surprising things about HTTP

In the works, apparently: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main... LayerCI / WebApp.io did mention they migrate VMs... Fly.io should steal that tech https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25980897

comment by ignoramous · 2022-05-25 · in Fly Machines: An API for Fast-Booting VMs

…of large teams should be sufficient. :) Oh, and I've just remembered about this nice project: < https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/ >

comment by yakubin · 2022-05-19 · in The Rust Borrow Checker – A Deep Dive

…virtualization, but celebratory noises to that effect elicited a slightly freaked out response: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/issues/17... That issue only really covered the security impliciations of multiple KVM…

comment by exikyut · 2022-05-04 · in Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications (2020)

…etc). The numbers here are extremely low. Also your article seems to have missed firecracker vm, https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

comment by kapilvt · 2022-04-27 · in AWS's Open Source Problem

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story by mlejva · 2022-04-12 · 33 comments

Off the top of my head… Firecracker, the software AWS Lambda runs on, is written in Rust: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker Mozilla wrote Servo, a browser engine, in Rust. Part of it has been integrated into Firefox a…

comment by ylk · 2022-02-25 · in Announcing Actix Web v4.0

…difficult, but I think that speaks to the skill and dedication of the maintainers who do it! [0]: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main... [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/rootfs [2]: https://wiki.debian.org/ramfs

comment by didizaja · 2022-02-07 · in Ramfs, Rootfs and Initramfs

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story by tsujp · 2022-02-07 · 0 comments

…to get access to an encrypted disk. Unfortunately, that was when I get the now fixed bug[1]. [1] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/issues/27...

comment by leonjza · 2022-01-31 · in Firecracker v1.0 Released

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story by ciprian_craciun · 2022-01-31 · 17 comments

…a beautiful language. As a random example, just look at the the Firecracker VMM written in Rust -- https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker . It would have been able to very difficult for me to understand the codebase if it were…

comment by sidkshatriya · 2022-01-30 · in Uninitialized memory: Unsafe Rust is too hard

see document here https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main...

comment by progamer2018 · 2021-10-19 · in Firecracker MicroVMs

…compensate for the over-consumption. Here's the handling [1]. I wish it was documented better. [0] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/fc2e... [1] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/2f92...

comment by ainzzorl · 2021-09-05 · in Writing Well-Documented Code – Learn from Examples

That’s correct. https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

comment by cpach · 2021-06-16 · in Execute Docker Containers as QEMU MicroVMs

…on all these characteristics and knock it out of the park on manageability to interest me. [1] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

comment by efitz · 2021-05-30 · in Hypervisor for multi-tenant computing, like it should be

Yeah and also what about projects like Firecracker? https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/

comment by aledalgrande · 2021-04-12 · in OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana

…spawn by Firecracker [0], which is likely to be more, not less, secure than Isolates [1]. [0] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/ [1] https://fly.io/blog/sandboxing-and-workload-isolation/

comment by ignoramous · 2021-03-30 · in The Deno Company

…whereas Firecracker obviously can't rely on such tech so there must be key differences? Thanks. [0] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/mast... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23036776

comment by ignoramous · 2021-01-31 · in Launch HN: LayerCI (YC S20) - Staging servers that act like (and replace) CI

…could fit in such a scheme, especially if it's a rust-vmm crate we can easily import over. [1]: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/pull/1351...

comment by ivzhh · 2021-01-31 · in Show HN: krunvm – Create and run lightweight VMs from OCI images

This is awesome. How does this compare with Firecracker - https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker Why only TCP is available? Network stack needs to be implemented?

comment by akkishore · 2021-01-29 · in Show HN: krunvm – Create and run lightweight VMs from OCI images

not currently, though there's some people working on that. https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/issues/11...

comment by ptomato · 2021-01-23 · in Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second

…point of view. It can use everything that Docker has to offer in the security domain and some more. https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/mast...

comment by StreamBright · 2021-01-23 · in Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second

…hood the other uses cgroups. Btw. you can run Firecracker VMs with container isolation on the top. https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/mast...

comment by StreamBright · 2021-01-23 · in Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second

https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker Disclaimer: current AWS employer. My job is not related to ES or Lambda.

comment by dvnguyen · 2021-01-21 · in AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

…of QEMU replacements written in Rust: - https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor - https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker - https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm... (the Chrome OS VM runtime…

comment by lima · 2021-01-15 · in Escaping VirtualBox 6.1: Part 1

…I'm not in this space. Why does a toy have so much activity (issues, pull requests) and stars? 1 - https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

comment by ctvo · 2020-11-05 · in Amazon Launches New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service

Are you talking about this project? https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker containerd I think it's still very much active. Not sure how usable it is if that's what you mean.

comment by aloknnikhil · 2020-10-24 · in Porting Firecracker to a Raspberry Pi 4 (2019)

…I'm fairly certain it's running more work than most of us here ever touched in their career total. https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker > And they at least have PEPs. Rusts language development has been guided by RFCs since…

comment by Xylakant · 2020-10-21 · in Cargo-style dependency management for C, C++ and other languages with Meson

I'm also biased here, but it seems like Firecracker ( https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker ) and rust-vmm ( https://github.com/rust-vmm ) would be great things to use as examples in a course like this. Not because it has…

comment by mjb · 2020-10-07 · in Designing a New Rust Class at Stanford: Safety in Systems Programming

…really serious about writing virtualization in Rust, they should just contribute to firecracker: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

comment by didip · 2020-08-12 · in QEMU should move from C to Rust

I assume this is a play on the word "firecracker"? :D https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

comment by lsofzz · 2020-06-19 · in Fakecracker: NetBSD as a Function Based MicroVM

…the title to say “Bottlerocket from AWS“. Like Firecracker [1] it’s explicitly not AWS branded. 1. https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

comment by bbgm · 2020-03-11 · in Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting containers

You can replace SSH requirement with virtio-vsock (also supported by Qemu) https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/mast...

comment by nezirus · 2020-03-07 · in Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing

…to [1] in code, the `mount` part requires sudo, so that would be my guess to why you need root. [1] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/mast...

comment by bennyz · 2020-03-07 · in Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing

This question may have been snark, but this is probably the best place to start: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

comment by chrisoverzero · 2020-02-19 · in Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications

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story by antmanler · 2019-11-05 · 10 comments

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story by _ananos_ · 2019-11-01 · 0 comments

…a solution using a combination of VMs and Docker containers to execute user generated code. [1] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker [2] https://aws.amazon.com/lambda [3] https://github.com/google/gvisor

comment by nnspace · 2019-09-15 · in Show HN: CoderTest – TDD/BDD focused programming interviews

…features: AWS’s Firecracker, a hypervisor with even less features for running containers as VMs: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/mast...

comment by jitl · 2019-04-24 · in Nemu – Modern Hypervisor for the Cloud by Intel

It looks like that's missing data - including some very big ones. https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker has quite a few stars and came out in 2018 - no mention. All three of them have contributed to the Linux kernel in…

comment by cthalupa · 2019-04-07 · in AWS Mesh Generally Available

…multiple VMs. To see how simple virtio-block is, take a look at Firecracker's implementation ( https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/mast... ). The existing alternative, as the post talks about, is 9p which has a lot of…

comment by mjb · 2019-02-06 · in Virtio-fs: shared file system for virtual machines

Amazon just open sourced the hypervisor used for Lambda and Fargate ( https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker ) When the Spectre/Meltdown hit, Amazon also open sourced the mitigation used for the AWS version of Xen (…

comment by cthalupa · 2018-12-02 · in Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers

…has access to all Linux system calls in the guest VM. You can see here the security model: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/mast... The firecracker process itself is limited in the system calls it can make, but kvm…

comment by ec109685 · 2018-11-27 · in Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing