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Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
Smol machines is a CLI tool for creating portable, hardware-isolated virtual machines with sub-second cold starts. It packages workloads into self-contained binaries, uses a TOML-based configuration file, and provides secure SSH agent forwarding without exposing keys.
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8 tagsvirtual machinesCLI toolsandboxportable executableshardware isolationcold startVMMlibkrunfw
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