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Re:Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable vi... by ukuina on Friday April 17, 2026 @03:29PM (#47809658)
Doesn't Docker's sbx do this?

https://docs.docker.com/reference/cli/sbx/

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Re:Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable vi... by binsquare on Friday April 17, 2026 @03:42PM (#47809773)
sandboxing is one of the features of virtual machines.

I'm building a different virtual machine.

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Re:Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable vi... by ccrone on Friday April 17, 2026 @08:00PM (#47811909)
Neat! I work with the team on sbx. We built our own cross-platform VMM after running into limitations with the existing options. Happy to chat more about what you’ve built and what we’re doing: christopher<dot>[email protected]
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