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Thank you!
why is the price bracket so weird? pro/10 gives each user less than half what individual plans would. It's almost like an attempt to dissuade pro purchases. Are there additional tooling you are not mentioning in the comparison?
What’s the size of the image? Can this run inside a Lambda?
It took us 8gb to get it up - maybe could be slimmed down if you took out the Anthropic Computer Use components, but browsers generally are pretty heavy.
When should I use this versus Browserbase or Browserless or Hyperbrowser? Obviously since this is open source, then I can self host it. What other reasons? Just curious!
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> Could you stick the Linux kernel and initramfs on the EFI boot partition as a UKI I considered that, even if it would go against the idea of having everything inside the Windows partition. I'd rather have had a shim in the EFI, with the UKI in C:\ The difficulty was bitlocker: my approach was a UKI with a small kernel and a few binaries to open the bitlocker volume and kexec the bigger kernel. I was also exploring…
> The difficulty was bitlocker: my approach was a UKI with a small kernel and a few binaries to open the bitlocker volume and kexec the bigger kernel. Why not do that from the initramfs with the real kernel? I'm pretty sure that's how it works on a normal encrypted root Linux install
With something like a chainloader using a special part of the NTFS partition posing as bad blocks, Windows could "remove" this access easily, without having to touch the EFI partition or the boot variables.
This looks excellent, and very fun to play with! I used this one-liner to run an instance directly from remote source: dagger -c 'git https://github.com/onkernel/kernel-images | head | tree | docker-build --dockerfile containers/docker/Dockerfile | up --ports 8501:8501,8080:8080,6080:6080,9222:9222' Be aware that the initial docker build is quite long... But caching kicks in for subsequent runs. I look forward to pla…
I just wanna say the Dagger shell syntax is incredibly cool and I look forward to playing with it. I would not complain if you posted such self-promotional comments on any thread where it’s relevant because it goes to show the flexibility of the thing. I saw your announcement post / many contentious HN comments, but wanted to chime in here with a supportive take, because I think time will reveal this design to be ver…
I actually agonized over whether to include this particular one-liner, because of the risk of perceived self-promotion. In the end I decided to include it, because I actually used it, and I found it actually useful for anyone who wants to try Kernel with a one-liner. I made sure to not include a link to my project, to keep my karma in balance :)
I've been a fan of unikernels for a long time (we acquired the original Unikernel company at Docker), and I have to say applying it to browsers is genius. Now I'm surprised the unikernel community hasn't focused on this application sooner.
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I just wanna say the Dagger shell syntax is incredibly cool and I look forward to playing with it. I would not complain if you posted such self-promotional comments on any thread where it’s relevant because it goes to show the flexibility of the thing. I saw your announcement post / many contentious HN comments, but wanted to chime in here with a supportive take, because I think time will reveal this design to be ver…
Thank you, I appreciate that! I actually agonized over whether to include this particular one-liner, because of the risk of perceived self-promotion. In the end I decided to include it, because I actually used it, and I found it actually useful for anyone who wants to try Kernel with a one-liner. I made sure to not include a link to my project, to keep my karma in balance :) I've been a fan of unikernels for a long t…
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> How hard would it be to boot a computer to this as an OS? Unikernels aren't meant to run as a bare metal OS on a standard computer like a PC. Instead they are applications wrapped in thin libraries that allow them to boot in hardware VM's provided by Intel vmx or AMD svm, etc. A hypervisor provides mechanisms for communication with hardware and other resources. They boot fast because the underlying system and hardw…
What about incus? Could incus provide some benefits as the host?
This is probably a dumb question from someone who knows almost nothing about system engineering. How hard would it be to boot a computer to this as an OS?
> How hard would it be to boot a computer to this as an OS? Unikernels aren't meant to run as a bare metal OS on a standard computer like a PC. Instead they are applications wrapped in thin libraries that allow them to boot in hardware VM's provided by Intel vmx or AMD svm, etc. A hypervisor provides mechanisms for communication with hardware and other resources. They boot fast because the underlying system and hardw…
Originally this absolutely was one of the selling points. NetBSD's rumpkernel, for example, clearly was intended to support bare metal. In practice, though, unikernels are typically run within VMs, for the reason you hinted at--you usually still want a regular OS to multiplex your hardware and (unikernel-based) applications.
Cool (and congrats on the demo)! Sounds like a promising approach. I work on browser use agents and one of the most difficult problems now is bot detection. Curious if you know how this impacts bot detection/fingerprinting?
(OP) Happy to answer any questions! Some things we're still exploring: - Mounting persistent storage for file i/o - Replacing noVNC with a faster alternative Would love feedback, especially if you’ve worked on fast-cold-start systems or unikernel-based infra.