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smolvm

Virtualization

A CLI tool to manage and run isolated Linux microVMs locally with sub‑second cold start, cross‑platform support, and portable .smolmachine bundles

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Rust Latest v1.6.13 · 7d ago Security brief →

Features

  • Run untrusted code in hardware‑isolated VMs with network egress control
  • Pack any workload into a single portable .smolmachine binary that boots in <200 ms
  • Use local OCI container images (Docker/podman archives, unpacked rootfs) without pulling from registries
  • Create persistent development machines whose state survives restarts
  • Forward host SSH agent for secure git/SSH access without exposing keys

Recent releases

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v1.6.13 Breaking risk

CUDA env var rename

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v1.6.12 Breaking risk

CUDA fork env var rename

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v1.6.11 New feature

docker-socket bridge + socket flags

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v1.6.10 Breaking risk

CUDA env var rename + expose-socket

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v1.6.9 New feature

docker‑socket bridge + socket flags

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