Boot Firecracker microVMs and measure startup yourself

Boot microVMs repeatedly, record the startup-time distribution and memory use with a stated method, and compare the setup with the paper’s methodology.

The exercise happens on Self-directed (Firecracker). Canonical link: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main/docs/getting-started.md. Link check: link responded (5 Oct 2026). Opened from this app 0 times; opening is not counted as an attempt.

Supports: Needs a Linux host with read/write access to /dev/kvm (macOS cannot run it directly; the project documentation suggests bare-metal cloud instances).