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We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon

by Ivan Cernja encore.dev published 2026-08-18

Firecracker needs KVM and therefore a Linux host, and the image tooling around it needs loop mounts and Linux userland. We rebuilt the stack on Apple's Virtualization.framework to boot the same OCI images as microVMs on macOS and on Linux.

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