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Re:Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable vi... by BobbyTables2 on Friday April 17, 2026 @11:23PM (#47812878)
How is this different than Kara Containers?
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Re:Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable vi... by binsquare on Friday April 17, 2026 @11:35PM (#47812919)
kata containers is a container runtime that focuses on running containers inside a vm.

smolvm is a vm with some of the properties & ergonomics of containers - it's meant as a replacement for containers.

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