Bottlefire
Infrastructure
microvm packaging
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4 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.
Idea: 3 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Pretty slick: no setup needed to go from KVM to running any docker container
From 1 comment
You don't need it, it's essentially a hosted version of their tool bake[0], which is actually pretty slick - without any setup you can go from a system with just KVM to running…
edude03 on HN
Looks awesome
From 2 comments
Looks awesome :) We're doing something similar at E2B, we should chat!
ushakov on HNBeen trying to work out how to put all of this together locally but didn't know bake existed, looks awesome. Any chance of looking into 9p for rootfs? I've been wanting to grab…
rob_c on HN
Objections
Why need a hosted service when it could run locally
From 2 comments
Why do you need a "service" for this? It looks like something you could run very well locally.
redleader55 on HNI hope you have read the article. They literally say as the other commentor points, that they essentially use bake. You could rather host something like this pretty trivially I…
Imustaskforhelp on HN
Requests
Support for VM snapshotting to resume mid-execution like CRIU
From 2 comments
I have 2 questions which I hope can be answered Firstly, can there be an easier way to stop a microVM mid execution in this single executable bottlefire format and then rerun…
Imustaskforhelp on HN> Firstly, can there be an easier way to stop a microVM mid execution in this single executable bottlefire format and then rerun that and it would start mid execution. (something…
losfair on HN
9p filesystem for rootfs
From 1 comment
Been trying to work out how to put all of this together locally but didn't know bake existed, looks awesome. Any chance of looking into 9p for rootfs? I've been wanting to grab…
rob_c on HN
Proxmox support for Firecracker
From 1 comment
Would love to have the ability to spin up firecracker micro vms in proxmox as an alternative to qemu
chwzr on HN
Questions
How is performance of mounted host directories
From 1 comment
How is the performance of the mounted host directories? It’s some file server over vsock?
chwzr on HN
How is networking configured
From 2 comments
I am very unfamiliar with this. I took a look, but couldn't find any information. How is networking configured?
davidcollantes on HNSeems to use a SOCKS5 proxy over tun2socks[1] to then use the host's networking setup…
mdaniel on HN
Does Firecracker support GPU state snapshotting
From 1 comment
Does Firecracker support snapshotting the GPU state of a MicroVM? Can you suspend a pyToch session? I'd be interested more generally in what is supported in terms of GPU. Is…
spwa4 on HN
Alternatives named
docker2exe
From 1 comment
How does it differ from docker2exe [1] or dockerc [2]? [1] https://github.com/rzane/docker2exe?tab=readme-ov-file#embedded-mode [2] https://github.com/NilsIrl/dockerc
mrbluecoat on HN
dockerc
From 2 comments
How does it differ from docker2exe [1] or dockerc [2]? [1] https://github.com/rzane/docker2exe?tab=readme-ov-file#embedded-mode [2] https://github.com/NilsIrl/dockerc
mrbluecoat on HNI don't know about the [1] but I think that [2] actually embed's crun https://github.com/containers/crun in the executable itself. Crun can be/is used by podman/docker too so you…
Imustaskforhelp on HN
CRIU
From 1 comment
I have 2 questions which I hope can be answered Firstly, can there be an easier way to stop a microVM mid execution in this single executable bottlefire format and then rerun…
Imustaskforhelp on HN