Show HN: OCI MicroVMs for Proxmox VE

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7 points | by rcarmo 13 hours ago

2 comments

  • rcarmo 13 hours ago
    Hello! I have been wanting to do "fix" the agent sandboxing problem for a while, and after playing around with containers, LXC, etc., I decided to look at microVMs. But since I run Proxmox at home, having an exotic hypervisor wasn't an option. And today I realized that QEMU has had microVMs for quite a while now (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/microvm.html), so I thought... What would it take to patch Proxmox to handle them?

    A few hours later, after my first hacky attempt where I validated that yes, PVE shipped with all the right bits, I decided to turn what I learned into a .deb package - I'll be using this on a daily basis, so I will be adding UI niceties as I go, but this is _immediately_ useful.

  • nigardev 11 hours ago
    how does this compare to plain firecracker? i tried running firecracker directly and the setup overhead was not worth it for my use case. curious if the proxmox integration makes the lifecycle easier
    • rcarmo 9 hours ago
      Lifecycle is identical to other proxmox VM types except it is much faster to boot and lighter on resources