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by eru 698 days ago
> I actually wonder how much "overhead" a VM actually has. i.e. a linux kernel that doesn't do anything (say perhaps just boots to an init that mounts proc and every n seconds read in/prints out /proc/meminfo) how much memory would the kernel actually be using?

You don't necessarily need to run a full operating system in your VM. See eg https://mirage.io/