filleokus 3 days ago

Looks cool! In the short demo [0] they mention "within a few hundred milliseconds" as VM boot time (I assume?). I wonder how much tweaking they had to do, because this is using the Virtualization.framework, which has been around a while and used by Docker dekstop / Colima / UTM (as an option).

I wonder what the memory overhead is, especially if running multiple containers - as that would spin up multiple VM's.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/346 10:10 and forwards

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open592 2 days ago

They include the kernel config here[0]

> Containers achieve sub-second start times using an optimized Linux kernel configuration[0] and a minimal root filesystem with a lightweight init system.

[0]: https://github.com/apple/containerization/blob/main/kernel/c...