Boot a Firecracker microVM via the REST API to isolate untrusted code (kernel, rootfs, network, InstanceStart)
domain: firecracker-microvm.github.io · 5 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps
Ensure the host has KVM and your user can read/write /dev/kvm (e.g. sudo setfacl -m u:${USER}:rw /dev/kvm, add to the kvm group, or run as root)
Obtain an uncompressed Linux kernel binary and an ext4 rootfs image
Start the Firecracker binary with a control socket and PCI transport: sudo ./firecracker --api-sock /tmp/firecracker.socket --enable-pci
In a second terminal configure via the API with curl --unix-socket: PUT /boot-source (kernel + boot args like console=ttyS0 reboot=k panic=1), PUT /drives/rootfs (is_root_device:true), PUT /network-interfaces/net1, and set up a TAP device
Start the VM: PUT /actions with {"action_type":"InstanceStart"}; wait ~0.015s after config then ~2s before SSH
Known gotchas
--enable-pci (VirtIO via PCI) is recommended over legacy MMIO for throughput and latency
/dev/kvm must be readable/writable by the running user - the most common first-run failure is a permission error on /dev/kvm
The API is HTTP over a unix socket; every config change is a PUT and InstanceStart completes asynchronously
For production, run through the jailer binary which applies a cgroup/namespace isolation barrier and drops privileges
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