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Ship software faster with portable, self contained virtual machines.
Smol machines solve the problem of "but app works on my machine" by shipping the machine. Smol machine enables devs to ship a lightweight virtual machine with any software, similar to how Electron ships an entire browser with the web app.
smol machines provides a CLI tool to manage and run custom Linux virtual machines locally with isolation by default. It supports portable, self-contained .smolmachine artifacts and hardware-isolated sandboxes for untrusted code.
The product is a CLI tool that lets users create, run, and manage Linux virtual machines locally. Features include sub-second cold start, cross-platform support (macOS and Linux), elastic memory usage, packing a VM into a single .smolmachine file for portability, and running commands inside ephemeral VMs. It supports sandboxing untrusted code via hardware isolation, network restrictions, and egress control; packing workloads into portable executables; and persistent VM instances where installed packages survive restarts. It also offers GPU-accelerated workloads via Vulkan-enabled VMs and provides commands to create, start, stop, and exec inside VMs, as well as packing images (e.g., python:3.12-alpine) into self-contained binaries.
Who it’s for: developers, DevOps engineers, and platform teams seeking portable, isolated runtimes and local VM workloads
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