[Kata-hypervisor] Firecracker Micro-VM

Xu Wang xu at hyper.sh
Tue Nov 27 06:09:04 UTC 2018


Thanks Anthony!
Very exciting project. Nice to see project like Firecracker and Nemu, which are
working on modern secure and high efficiency VMM.
Will take a look soon.
Have a good time at re:Invent :)
Cheers!,Xu  





On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 1:42 PM, Liguori, Anthony via Kata-hypervisor 
kata-hypervisor at lists.katacontainers.io  wrote:
Howdy,





Earlier today we released a new Open Source project we're calling Firecracker. 
I wanted to take a moment to share a little bit about what our goals of this
project are since I think it aligns well with a lot we've discussed here.





First, let me describe what it is.  Firecracker is a VMM written in Rust that
supports a minimal device model and loads a Linux and initramfs directly.  It
only supports virtio devices models (MMIO, not PCI) and has very basic support
for things like UART and PC-KBD.  It started out based on Crosvm (which is a
wonderful piece of code!) but we took it in a different direction being focused
much more on the serverless use-case than on the desktop application use-case. 
My hope is that over time we can share a bunch with the Crosvm project via
common crates.





Today we are using Firecracker to run portions of both AWS Lambda and AWS
Fargate.  We wanted to get the project to a point where it was useful and we
think we've gotten it there so we're now making it generally available.





There is a *ton* of work to do though.  I think there's a ton of exploration to
do around what is the device model that makes the most sense (I'm not convinced
it's virtio-mmio).  I also think there's a lot that can be improved on the Linux
side too.  I'm hoping folks are interested and we're very committed to working
with the broader community on this.





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





On a personal note, I absolutely love Rust!  I think the language was made for
this purpose.





Anyway, we're happy to answer any questions you may have and look forwarding to
chatting on the upcoming call on Dec 6th.





Regards,





Anthony Liguori




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Xu WangCTO & Cofounder, Hypergithub/twitter/wechat: @gnawuxhttp://hyper.sh
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