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Comment on: Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines

by zekenie
Posted: Apr 18, 2026
This project is very cool! One readme nit: "Pack a stateful virtual machine into a single file (.smolmachine) to rehydrate on any supported platform." For awhile I thought this meant that you could rehydrate a machine's memory like you can with a firecracker vm, but as far as I can tell you can't? It's stateful == disk?
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