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distrobox
Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
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impermanence
Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
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dstack
Vendor-agnostic orchestration for training, inference and agentic workloads across NVIDIA, AMD, TPU, and Tenstorrent on clouds, Kubernetes, and bare metal.
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crosvm
The Chrome OS Virtual Machine Monitor - Mirror of https://chromium.googlesource.com/crosvm/crosvm/
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- We're Leaving Kubernetes
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NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't
One technique employed by microvm.nix[0] is to mount the hosts /nix/store into the guest. This won't shrink the size of the system, but should allow it to be amortized across many different VMs.
I'm not sure how exploitable a read-only virtiofs share is, so this is perhaps not appropriate in some circumstances.
[0]: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix
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Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
- Generating virtual machines/installators from a configuration: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix and https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
- NixOS MicroVMs
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Is there a nixos solution for hyperconverged infrastructure?
MicroVM.nix, which creates firecracker/cloud-hypervisor/qemu/etc VMs: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix
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Make your QEMU 10 times faster with this one weird trick
FWIW, the contemporary alternative to 9p is virtiofs. It is implemented as a separate service that is running aside the hypervisor. Originally out of qemu, it was rewritten in Rust as a freestanding project that can also be used with cloud-hypervisor and crosvm.
https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd
On NixOS: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix
- microvm.nix: A Nix Flake to Easily Run NixOS MicroVMs on NixOS
- Microvm.nix: A Nix Flake to Easily Run NixOS MicroVMs on NixOS
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microvm-nix/microvm.nix is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of microvm.nix is Nix.
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