vhaudiquet 4affe9230c fix(image): publish the built image atomically
mke2fs creates and sizes the output file before it populates it, so a
build that failed mid-way left a recent-looking image full of zeros at
the final name - newer than the tarball, and trusted by the freshness
check forever after. The first run after the libarchive fix booted
exactly that wreckage: EXT4-fs "Can't find ext4 filesystem".

The build now lands in a sibling .part file and renames over the image
only on success, and the freshness check additionally requires the
ext4 superblock magic (s_magic, at byte 1080) before trusting an
existing image - caches already carrying wreckage rebuild over it on
the next run instead of needing a manual clean.
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ecrou

a small microVM runtime based on libkrun

Try ecrou in the terminal

Installation

ecrou is available as a strictly confined snap:

sudo snap install ecrou
sudo snap connect ecrou:kvm

Usage

$ ecrou run -it ubuntu
root@ecrou-vm-m2glhl:/# 

Embed ecrou into your project

ecrou is both a library and a tiny CLI frontend around it. The library is embeddable into any project, allowing to use microVMs easily.

Rust

ecrou is a Rust library, which can just be called:

use ecrou::vm::RunOptions;
use ecrou::NoProgress;

fn main() -> ecrou::Result<std::process::ExitCode> {
    let code = ecrou::vm::run(
        &RunOptions {
            image: "ubuntu:resolute".into(),
            command: vec!["uname".into(), "-a".into()],
            ..RunOptions::default()
        },
        &NoProgress,
    )?;
    Ok(std::process::ExitCode::from(code.clamp(0, 255) as u8))
}
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