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by lathiat 301 days ago
Not everything uses qemu. Some do. More use KVM. Not everything does.

Example: https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/

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I've found QEMUs microvm to be faster at boot while having nicer tooling and a cleaner upgrade path if needing more features. Aside from hype I'm actually not sure why anyone would still use firecracker.
Mainly because of the much larger attack surface of QEMU.
I can't quantify how much of that surface is also reduced with the microvm machine vs other parts of QEMU vs Firecracker... But fair enough point.