vhaudiquet 84ccff0157 feat(image): populate the image from a tree when mke2fs lacks libarchive
mke2fs built against libarchive populates an ext4 from a tarball in
one pass; Homebrew's bottle is not built that way, so when the found
mke2fs cannot take a tarball the builder unpacks the rootfs with the
library's own tar decoder and populates from the directory — slower,
and the run says so. The mkfs child is exec'd fresh, so it reads
DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH (libarchive's keg) at startup.
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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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