<story><title>Show HN: Slim – Build and run tiny VMs from Dockerfiles</title><url>https://github.com/ottomatica/slim</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>Recently on HN (I think) and related:&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;micromind.me&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;from-docker-container-to-bootable-linux-disk-image&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;micromind.me&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;from-docker-container-to-boota...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;godarch.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;godarch.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Really like seeing these new usecases for containers -- would have never thought to mix the two technologies in this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>juliangoldsmith</author><text>Darch reminds me a bit of Tiny Core Linux.  That uses loopback images for packages, and puts them together with UnionFS, IIRC.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Slim – Build and run tiny VMs from Dockerfiles</title><url>https://github.com/ottomatica/slim</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>Recently on HN (I think) and related:&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;micromind.me&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;from-docker-container-to-bootable-linux-disk-image&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;micromind.me&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;from-docker-container-to-boota...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;godarch.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;godarch.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Really like seeing these new usecases for containers -- would have never thought to mix the two technologies in this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eeZah7Ux</author><text>They seem to do very little that SystemD cannot already do with services and overlayFS, with the added benefit of being already available on most systems.</text></comment>