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The one-command install edit had replaced the whole macOS section instead of just the install lines, dropping the from-source sign snippet; it is back, with the current entitlements path and libarchive in the brew line. Homebrew's tap-trust gate now leads the macOS install: dependencies from third-party taps stay refused until their tap is trusted once, and libkrun ships from its own tap.
ecrou
a small microVM runtime based on libkrun
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 trust --tap libkrun/krun
brew install vhaudiquet/ecrou/ecrou
The brew trust step is Homebrew's tap-trust gate: dependencies from
third-party taps stay refused until their tap is trusted once, and
ecrou's engine, libkrun, ships from libkrun's own tap. The macOS
build loads libkrun from that 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 libarchive
cargo build --release -p ecrou-cli
codesign --force --sign - --entitlements packaging/homebrew/ecrou.entitlements \
target/release/ecrou
Every local build needs that last line: cargo output is ad-hoc signed
without the entitlement, and macOS refuses VM creation to it — ecrou probe says so and prints the command.
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))
}