@jonathangrahl: By experience, getting Firecracker to run well on M-series macs is quite the undertaking. I'm not at all surprised Enco…
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The tweet discusses the challenges of running Firecracker on M-series Macs and references Encore's blog post about rebuilding their Linux microVM stack for Apple Silicon, sharing their own experience with nested virtualization.
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By experience, getting Firecracker to run well on M-series macs is quite the undertaking. I’m not at all surprised Encore decided to take this path considering their customer base!
At Lovable we decided to spend ~1 engineering month getting our sandbox infrastructure to be 100% runnable on Mac and on Linux with predictable builds using Bazel etc.
But we actively decided to take a different route than Encore and run nested virtualization, which on macOS means vfkit -> QEMU -> Kind + Firecracker vm(s). It’s been invaluable to get the same development and testing tools on both platforms tbh.
We rebuilt the Linux microVM stack on Apple Silicon
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