Firecracker vs. QEMU

#1

Post by jonas_scholz » Thu, Mar 06, 2025, 11:07 AM UTC

Re: Firecracker vs. QEMU

#2

Post by rbanffy » Thu, Mar 06, 2025, 12:16 PM UTC

Tooling support is important to me - how well supported is it? Can I create a Firecracker VM the same way I create a QEMU one using virt-manager?

Re: Firecracker vs. QEMU

#3

Post by jonas_scholz » Thu, Mar 06, 2025, 2:15 PM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #2

Tooling support is important to me - how well supported is it? Can I create a Firecracker VM the same way I create a QEMU one using virt-manager?

afaik no firecracker support with virt-manager. There's firectl to make it a bit easier but the tooling is generally still pretty rough

Re: Firecracker vs. QEMU

#4

Post by rbanffy » Thu, Mar 06, 2025, 3:42 PM UTC

jonas_scholz wrote: post #3

rbanffy wrote: post #2

Tooling support is important to me - how well supported is it? Can I create a Firecracker VM the same way I create a QEMU one using virt-manager?

afaik no firecracker support with virt-manager. There's firectl to make it a bit easier but the tooling is generally still pretty rough

It's a shame. For a lot of cases, where you are happy with virtio peripherals, it seems to be a great replacement for KVM.