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nabla-containers
nabla-linux
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nabla-containers / nabla-linux

nabla-linux

Experimental Linux Virtual Machine based on UML and noMMU

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
70GitHub stars
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What it is

Experimental Linux Virtual Machine based on UML and noMMU

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2022-02-01 21:28:46 UTC to 2025-02-09 17:15:12 UTC.

012022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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You could try to use the Win32 debug API in the same way like Linux UML by using ptrace. But it would probably still be much slower because of missing things like PTRACE_SYSCALL. More performant would be a noMMU variant of UML for Windows, supporting only PIE executables, similar to nabla-linux [1]. This is also quite similar to how mssql for Linux works NT kernel+Win32 in a single usermode process (single address space) [2]. Interestingly, mssql also uses memory protection keys to recover a bit of fault tolerance but last time I checked Win32 does not have an API for MPKs. [1] https://github.com/nabla-containers/nabla-linux [2] https://threedots.ovh/slides/Drawbridge.pdf
In Linux as co-operative Windows process (2017)

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