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by causal 20 days ago
I've never used smolmachines but I'm curious; why this over a container?
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Containers are not security boundaries. Vulnerabilities in containers are much more common than in VMs.
Kernel-level isolation is a significant security differentiator, for starters.

https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm#comparison

shows a good comparison table.