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A unified microVM API that targets Firecracker on Linux and Apple's hypervisor on macOS.

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5Hacker News·8/21/2026open_source
Encore Rebuilds Its Linux MicroVM Stack for Apple Silicon
Encore rebuilt its Linux microVM build stack so the same images and workflow can run on both Linux hosts and macOS laptops. The effort introduces a unified microVM API and required reworking image-building tools to convert Docker layers into bootable Firecracker-compatible disk images on Apple Silicon.