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Products that do what Microterm runs Linux VM in any browser tab via WASM, RISCV64 emulation does
Microterm is a fully compliant Linux virtual machine that runs in any browser tab. It is designed for real development and operations workflows, not demo-only terminal output. You can use it on desktop, tablets, and phones, including iOS home-screen PWA installs. Under the hood, Microterm combines Restty (libghostty + WebGPU) web terminal rendering and a TinyEMU-backed Alpine Linux guest on RISC-V64. The VM image is chunk-loaded in the browser and booted locally. I successfully used it to run Codex directly without leaving an in-app preview inside X app or Telegram :) Can be used to SSH to…
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Hi HN! Excited to launch machine0, a CLI that makes it easy to create, provision and snapshot persistent NixOS (& Ubuntu) VMs. You can think of machine0 as a modern VPS provider. VMs stay on unless switched-off (with 99.99% uptime), they have static IPs and HTTPS endpoints, 1-60 vCPU, up to 240GB RAM and optionally GPUs. The CLI provides commands to manage lifecycle, snapshots and also provision the VMs using Nix flakes or Ansible playbooks. VMs are priced by the minute of usage. What makes machine0 unique is that it has first class support for NixOS! In a nutshell, NixOS lets you define…
Jun 2026 · machine0.io
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Weekend creation: A Linux terminal on top of a RISC-V emulator running in the browser via WebAssembly, powered by the Cartesi Machine. Check cool commands to experiment in the project page https://github.com/edubart/cartesi-wasm-term
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I've been running Pi using SmolVM to build SmolVM! SmolVM provides an abstraction over microVMs to easily create sandboxes for coding agents, OpenClaw, or just to build a custom harness. To use it, install using: curl -sSL https://celesto.ai/install.sh | bash and then run: smolvm pi start
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Hi HN, I spent the last few months reading the RISC‑V specification to build the lightest possible sandboxes. The idea behind a vpod is to quickly spin up a Linux sandbox from snapshots (Alpine by default) without any setup or subsystem required. The trade-off for portability and security is raw CPU speed. So we don't expect it to match native workloads with Python or pip, for example. More info is in the README https://github.com/capsulerun/vpod Happy to answer any questions!
Jun 2026 · github.com
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Run VMs like containers. Pervasive as the sky.
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SmolVM is an open-source local sandbox for AI agents on macOS and Linux. I started building it because agent workflows need more than isolated code execution. They need a reusable environment: write files in one step, come back later, snapshot state, pause/resume, and increasingly interact with browsers or full desktop environments. Right now SmolVM is a Python SDK and CLI focused on local developer experience. Current features include: - local sandbox environments - macOS and Linux support - snapshotting - pause/resume - persistent environments across turns Install: ``` curl -sSL…
Apr 2026 · github.com
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