Show HN: Tarit – a hypervisor which is 2x faster than firecracker

https://github.com/instavm/tarit

by mkagenius • 7 days ago

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philips• 5 days ago

Where does the headline come from? The README metrics say there are no published benchmarks.

mkagenius2• 5 days ago

Mostly from internal tests. And also some of the companies we know uses firecracker has published benchmarks[1]

1. https://x.com/mlejva/status/2069424250709307451?s=20

DenisM• 5 days ago

Not clear where 2x claim in the headline came from, I don’t see it in the linked site.

mkagenius2• 5 days ago

Answered in the thread above- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955273

miduil• 5 days ago

Not "yet" with "virtio-balloon", so basically where firecracker was for quite some time. With that you can only grow, but not shrink memory if I understand correctly. So useful for "I'll run and terminate" but not for "I'll run next to others with varying runtime and memory usage".

Will be interesting to see how https://github.com/rust-vmm/rust-vmm is going to develop, sounds like something like that could have a lot of use-cases for privilege separation but also embedded testing frameworks.

Show HN: Tarit – a hypervisor which is 2x faster than firecracker

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