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https://hocus.dev/blog/qemu-vs-firecracker/

Firecracker, the microVM hypervisor, is renowned for being lightweight, fast, and secure. It’s excellent for running short-lived workloads, which is why it’s the backbone of AWS Lambda. After weeks of testing, we decided to entirely replace it with QEMU. A little-known fact about Firecracker is its lack of support for many modern hypervisor features, such as dynamic RAM management, which is vital for long-lived workloads. In this post, I will explain why Firecracker might not be the best hypervisor choice and when you should avoid it.

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