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12 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2023-02-06 · latest 2026-09-29

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  1. I'll give this one a try, thanks for sharing! FWIW, I'm currently using systemd-nspawn via mkosi: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi It makes an image and runs it in separate namespace. It can start at bash or init. It's very fast but there…
    comment by bita_nidir · 2026-09-29 · in Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux
  2. I use mkosi: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi Which is just a front for systemd-nspawn. It's annoying you have to edit the config.nspawn to mount a directory if you start it with the "shell" command, instead of booting. But apart from…
    comment by felooboolooomba · 2026-07-13 · in Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop
  3. …excellent super slept on distro assembly tools also homed in the systemd cinematic universe, mkosi, https://github.com/systemd/mkosi
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2026-06-20 · in Systemd 261 released with systemd-sysinstall, IMDSD, and storagectl
  4. …it used about the same amount of memory, maybe a little more based on how ZFS is set up. [1]: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi
    comment by YorickPeterse · 2025-12-31 · in FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
  5. …a good "re-introduction" on Lennart (creator of systemd, mkosi) site, from the current maintainer. https://github.com/systemd/mkosi?tab=readme-ov-file#referenc... https://0pointer.net/blog/a-re-introduction-to-mkosi-a-tool-...
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-07-16 · in Mkosi – Build Bespoke OS Images
  6. The alternative is mkosi from systemd developers https://github.com/systemd/mkosi However beware that they break backwards compatibility almost every 6 months. This is probably the most backwards-incompable project I know, you can't rely…
    comment by ValdikSS · 2025-06-28 · in bootc-image-builder: Build your entire OS from a Containerfile
  7. …everything compiled in the previous stage, to the final squashfs OS file and MicroSD image. [1]: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi
    comment by ValdikSS · 2025-05-05 · in Show HN: Driverless print server for legacy printers, profit goes to open-source
  8. There's lots of tools in this space. I work on https://github.com/systemd/mkosi for example.
    comment by DaanDeMeyer · 2024-07-26 · in Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs
  9. …like a charm and integrates nicely in your system. Eg. logs and systemd services or CI testing. - https://github.com/systemd/mkosi - man:systemd-nspawn(1) - man:machinectl(1)
    comment by netzego · 2023-05-15 · in Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal
  10. Systemd's mkosi is worth checking out too: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi I don't think it generates docker/OCI images directly, but it definitely can generate a tarball of the final filesystem image contents and then crane or a similar…
    comment by qbasic_forever · 2023-02-06 · in Crafting container images without Dockerfiles