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Podman supports this since quite a while with the krun variant of the crun runtime ( https://github.com/containers/crun/blob/main/krun.1 ), provided in Fedora by the "crun-krun" pa…

Behind the scenes, it's using QEMU with Alex Graf's patches for hvf (Hypervisor.framework) support, so it's Virtualization, not emulation. In other words, the performance is really…

I can't comment on the comparison with Docker for Mac bacause, honestly, I have never used it. With krunvm, each session initiated with "krunvm start" is an independent lightweight…

The key is that libkrun ( https://github.com/containers/libkrun ), the library that krunvm uses for running the VMs, as recently integrated support for Hypervisor.framework on ARM6…

krunvm uses libkrun ( https://github.com/containers/libkrun ) for executing the VM, and while the later is also based in rust-vmm and shares some code with Firecracker and Cloud-Hy…

I think the slide 14 from the talk "Reports of my Bloat Have Been Greatly Exaggerated" [1] presented by Paolo Bonzini at KVM Forum 2019 gives some good perspective about QEMU's sec…

That's correct. The initial versions of the microvm patch series did require KVM, but the one that got upstreamed does work with TCG [1], thanks to the QEMU's maintainers feedback.…

From the guest perspective, the differences are minimal. Even boot time of the guest (thinking about a custom-built minimalist Linux kernel here) is roughly the same. On the host s…