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<p align="center">
<img src=".github/img/logo.svg" width="150" alt="écrou logo">
</p>
<h1 align="center">ecrou</h1>
<p align="center">a small microVM runtime based on <a href="https://github.com/libkrun/libkrun">libkrun</a></p>
## Try ecrou in the terminal
### Installation
Linux (strictly confined snap, KVM required):
```
sudo snap install ecrou
sudo snap connect ecrou:kvm
```
macOS (Apple Silicon, Homebrew):
```
brew tap vhaudiquet/ecrou https://github.com/vhaudiquet/homebrew-ecrou
brew install ecrou
```
The macOS build loads libkrun from the
[`libkrun/homebrew-krun`](https://github.com/libkrun/homebrew-krun) tap
at runtime and boots through Hypervisor.framework; the formula signs
the binary with the hypervisor entitlement macOS requires, so the
install needs no extra steps. Building from source instead:
```
brew install libkrun/homebrew-krun/libkrun e2fsprogs
cargo build --release -p ecrou-cli
codesign --force --sign - --entitlements packaging/macos/ecrou.entitlements target/release/ecrou
```
### 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:
```rust
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))
}
```