Observed arrival · 2026-09-22
smol machines: one tiny VM, several places to run it
A microVM platform for running isolated Linux workloads locally, in its cloud, or on self-hosted servers.
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- Engineers running isolated workloads and reinforcement-learning environments
- Worth noticing
- A live machine can be forked into batches of rollout episodes instead of booting each VM from scratch.
Field notes
The page treats the `.smolmachine` file as a portable unit that can carry a workload between local development, hosted infrastructure, and self-hosted machines. Its examples include REST requests for creating a machine and executing commands, while the technical description names libkrun, guest kernels, elastic memory, and platform-specific hypervisors. A notable use case is forking a running VM into many reinforcement-learning episodes.
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