[IanChiles]

Could you use Docker as a backend on Linux? I feel like it would eliminate a lot of the size overhead, and be significantly easier to ship (a single static binary)

[grun]

Perhaps. Arc could also use Linux Containers (LXC) directly for the aforementioned benefits.

In the future, Arc will be agnostic and support multiple hypervisors. One could use LXC on Linux, HyperV on Windows, VirtualBox, etc.