Show HN: SmolVM – open-source sandbox for coding and computer-use agents

Re:Show HN: SmolVM – open-source sandbox for coding and comp... by skwuwu on Thursday April 09, 2026 @09:44PM (#47712591)

I'd like to use it for agent like OpenClaw, but i wanna know if agnet spawn sub agent in VM, and it's resource requirements is bigger than VM's resource, those processes killed by OOM? or SmolVM gracefully handle it? Or can i adjust resource limit for my purpose?

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Re:Show HN: SmolVM – open-source sandbox for coding and comp... by theaniketmaurya on Friday April 10, 2026 @07:34AM (#47716542)

yes, we have an example of OpenClaw.

SmolVM uses microVMs which means the resource consumption is quite minimal. For now, you can specify the amount of RAM while starting the VM. We are making it elastic so you can configure to expand the RAM based on usage.

Here is the link to the [documentation](https://docs.celesto.ai/smolvm), but I can also show you on a call.

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Re:Show HN: SmolVM – open-source sandbox for coding and comp... by skimojoe on Friday April 10, 2026 @04:16PM (#47723132)

you should check out nono, been running openclaw in their for weeks now and forget its there half the time, no vm's or containers involved.

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