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Re:Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS i... by tough on Saturday June 27, 2026 @01:50AM (#48695543)
heh I vibe-coded a little local app to have smolmachines and tart, for smolmachines i had to vibe-fork 2 deps deep to get GUI support working, but now i have linux desktop computers on smol machines!

also have support for lima/colima/podman

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Re:Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS i... by binsquare on Saturday June 27, 2026 @04:08AM (#48696190)
Would like to see this! Wonder how you got GUI support working because with vulkan support - you effectively enable running games cross platform
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Re:Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS i... by tough on Saturday June 27, 2026 @10:55AM (#48698836)
VNC/RFB as the transport, but not just a guest-side x11vnc. I forked the local SmolVM path to start libkrun with display enabled, expose the framebuffer + keyboard/pointer input, then serve that over a loopback passworded RFB endpoint. Local Machines waits for display_ready and embeds it. It has to be selected at VM start; no hot attach yet.

The interesting bit is the libkrun GPU/framebuffer/input plumbing; VNC is just how I got the pixels into the macOS app. The guest still needs a real graphical workload/compositor, e.g. Weston.

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