Re:Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable vi...
by fqiao on Friday April 17, 2026 @04:25PM
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Cannot thank you more for this! Lets' work together to see how we can make this easier for cave!
Re:Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable vi...
by indigodaddy on Friday April 17, 2026 @06:42PM
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This looks super awesome. Very excited for you potentially open sourcing it, as I’d like to customize/extend it a bit for certain use cases. Re: smolvm vs in use, I think even if smolvm works great for it, why not keep incus as an option for people who want to use cave on VMs that don’t have access to /dev/kvm (Eg the user can pick either incus or smolvm for their cave deployment)
I’m currently evaluating smolvm for my project, https://withcave.ai, where I’m using Incus for isolation. The initial integration results look very promising!