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smartxworks / virtink

virtink

Lightweight Virtualization Add-on for Kubernetes

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3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
613GitHub stars
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What it is

Lightweight Virtualization Add-on for Kubernetes

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This week on Hacker News

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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HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-07-26 06:59:44 UTC to 2025-05-30 15:13:26 UTC.

012022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 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 UTC110
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
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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Why not some of the existing microvm efforts? Cloud Hypervisor and Firecracker both have an excellent reputation for ultra lightweight VM's. Both are usable in the very popular Kata Containers project (as well as other upstart VM's Dragonball, & StratoVirt). In us by for example the CNCF Confidential Containers https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/main... https://confidentialcontainers.org/ There's also smaller efforts such as firecracker-containerd or Virtink, both which bring OCI powered microvms into a Docker like position (easy to slot into Kubernetes), via Firecracker and Cloud Hypervisor respectively. https://github.com/smartxworks/virtink https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-container... Poking around under the hood, microsandbox appears to use krun. There is krunvm for OCI support (includes MacOS/
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arm64 support!). https://github.com/containers/krunvm https://github.com/slp/krun The orientation as a safe sandbox for AI / MCP tools is a very nicely packaged looking experience, and very well marketred. Congratulations! I'm still not sure why this warrants being it's own project.
In Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers

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