CHchrisparnin·Jan 3, 2022Submission
Show HN: Slim 2: Create VM from Dockerfile, boots in seconds (+macOS M1/Hyper-V)
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slim
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ottomatica / slim
slim
Build and run tiny vms from Dockerfiles. Small and sleek.
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What it is
Build and run tiny vms from Dockerfiles. Small and sleek.
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesThere are a few existing projects out there like this (running Docker images as virtual machines, specifically) if folks are interested. Slim [0] is the one I can remember off the top of my head. I think there are a couple more.
Still, neat to have the walkthrough here in this post.
https://github.com/ottomatica/slim
In Execute Docker Containers as QEMU MicroVMsFrom a thread a while ago I know of these that work on Dockerfiles but build fully bootable disk images:
https://godarch.com/
https://github.com/imc-trading/dock2box
https://buildroot.org/
https://github.com/ottomatica/slim
In How I use the good parts of AWSRun this in a docker env then?
docker run -it --entrypoint /bin/sh -v $PWD:/bla -v /run/docker.sock:/run/docker.sock node:12
apk add git docker cdrkit libvirt-daemon qemu-system-x86_64
npm install https://github.com/ottomatica/slim
cd /bla && /node_modules/.bin/slim
In Show HN: Slim – Build and run tiny VMs from DockerfilesShow HN: Slim – Build and run tiny VMs from Dockerfiles
389 points · Open discussionShow HN: slim - Build micro-vms from Dockerfiles
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