smolvm
smolvm is Sandboxing locally is going to become more and more important, do it with smol machines. It is ranked #7685 on the Dev Radar, in AI dev tools, first seen 65 days ago and shared in 17 posts (47.1k views).
What smolvm says about itself
An embeddable, portable, branchable virtual machine to safely run Agents locally. - smol-machines/smolvm
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What people said about smolvm on X
smol machines v1.28 is now out! Existing infra makes you decide everything up front, ram, cpu, disk, networking, ports, etc etc. But that's now how Agents work. They find out what they need halfway through the task. smol machines can change while it runs! Also we support live changing of ports + udp ports now.…
— @binsquares, 19 days ago · 82 likes · see the post
After a quick bench, if you're using WSL on windows for any thing. You should be using smolvm instead. https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm
— @binsquares, 20 days ago · 46 likes · see the post
smol machines v1.31 is released! One of the new useful features is the ability to use your OS's keychain for secrets. i.e. smolvm machine run --secret-keychain OPENAI_API_KEY=openai The secret is read at launch + it's never written to disk. Even if the guest is compromised, there's nothing to read? Supports both…
— @binsquares, 12 days ago · 27 likes · see the post
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smolvm in numbers
- Rank on the Dev Radar: #7685 of 9158
- Shared in 17 posts by 4 accounts: @binsquares
- 47.1k views on those posts
- First seen 65 days ago, last shared 7 days ago
- Pricing seen by AGK Intelligence: open source
- Market: AI dev tools
FAQ
What is smolvm?
Sandboxing locally is going to become more and more important, do it with smol machines It was first shared on X 65 days ago and is ranked #7685 on the Dev Radar.
Is smolvm free?
It is open source.
Who shared smolvm?
4 accounts on X, including @binsquares, in 17 posts totalling 47.1k views.
Every post is read and classified by AGK Intelligence: what it is, which market it belongs to, and whether the link is a real tool. 31.3k posts from 5k X accounts over the last 21 days, 9.2k tools, 12 markets. New posts are collected several times an hour and the full ranking is recomputed every hour — last update 2026-11-03 18:17 UTC. Full method.