alt Hacker NewsWhat's the difference between lima and conventional fat VM using kvm/virtualbox?
I only heard about smolvm yet and they are YC, so I'm hesitant to use them as they will probably one day pull the rug.
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adastra22 • today at 4:25 AM
Nothing. Lima is a VM running Linux under the hood.
smolvm has better bootup time (<200ms), secrets handling, and egress control compared to lima. Among other things like native branching/forking of the vm itself.
As for the rug pull concern, I'm committed to open source with 2 pieces of evidence.
1. oss license 2. Business model is accruing revenue from offering hosted service + inbound due to the open source project. The business model + open source is aligned.
disclaimer: maintainer of smol machines