vhaudiquet dd4139ce65 fix(rootfs): boot a cached distro entry for floating aliases
Resolution ran before the cache was consulted, so every run of
alpine:3.23, ubuntu or any floating alias hit the CDN or
changelogs.ubuntu.com, and an offline run of a cached image died in
resolution instead of booting. The boot path now asks the cache
first: an alias boots the newest cached entry of its distro, within
the series or the edge flavor it floats in, and resolves upstream
only on a miss; pull and --no-cache still resolve upstream.

Exactly-named references (Ubuntu YY.MM, known codename, Alpine X.Y.Z)
resolve offline on every path; resolve_source folds into the policy,
which lives with the cache it consults.
2026-10-30 23:12:50 +01:00
2026-10-29 21:47:14 +01:00

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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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