User:Randomrhino/Firecracker
Firecracker is a virtual machine monitor, making use of KVM to manage microVMs. A powerful RESTful API is used to manage the microVMs. It was implemented by developers at Amazon Web Services to improve resource utilization. The great advantage is, that it combines the small footprint of containers with the security features of conventional virtual machines. Amazon pronounces it as an alternative to QEMU.
An example of an optimized environment on the website states, that a Firecracker microVM enables a < 125 ms startup time and a < 5MiB memory footprint.
Installation
Firecracker can be installed with a package firecracker-binAUR, available in the AUR.