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Create microVMs from OCI images
8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2021-06-16 · latest 2025-11-27
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Krunvm has some breaking issues that I'm trying to upstream fixes to: https://github.com/containers/krunvm/pull/74 . Amazing project and maintainer btw. This product is effectively wrapper that has some fixes + devX glue that makes the…
comment by binsquare · 2025-11-27 · in Show HN: Era – Open-source local sandbox for AI agents -
…microsandbox appears to use krun. There is krunvm for OCI support (includes MacOS/arm64 support!). https://github.com/containers/krunvm https://github.com/slp/krun The orientation as a safe sandbox for AI / MCP tools is a very nicely…
comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-05-30 · in Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers -
…in VMs. It's an OCI runtime so it fits into the podman, Docker, or Kubernetes model. krunvm ( https://github.com/containers/krunvm ) is a standalone tool with a similar workflow where you can launch a VM from an OCI image. It predates…
comment by stefanha · 2024-08-29 · in RunCVM: An open-source Docker runtime for launching container images in VMs -
Maybe https://github.com/containers/krunvm
comment by figomore · 2023-04-28 · in Ask HN: Best way to run Linux VMs on M1 Mac with fileSharing/shared networking? -
For an even more lightweight approach to running containers in VMs see: https://github.com/containers/krunvm It's powered by https://github.com/containers/libkrun .
comment by stefanha · 2021-06-17 · in Execute Docker Containers as QEMU MicroVMs -
A couple more: https://github.com/containers/krunvm https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite
comment by hardwaresofton · 2021-06-16 · in Execute Docker Containers as QEMU MicroVMs