Issues

• Credential-interception leaf certificates lack Authority/Subject Key Identifier, so Python's default TLS verification rejects them

  smol-machines/smolvm#1721 · Filter by author aeronmiles opened on Oct 11, 2026

• Every machine created from a pack formats a new case-sensitive APFS image

  smol-machines/smolvm#1712 · Filter by author BABTUNA opened on Oct 11, 2026

• Checkpoint restore extracts and unpacks the agent rootfs, then deletes it

  smol-machines/smolvm#1701 · Filter by author BABTUNA opened on Oct 10, 2026

• --credential: substitution is header-only and secrets are resolved at launch, so OAuth refresh can't work inside a guest

  bugenhancement
  smol-machines/smolvm#1695 · Filter by author aeronmiles opened on Oct 10, 2026
  

• --credential: WebSocket upgrade requests to a bound host get 400; please forward them, or answer 426

  bug
  smol-machines/smolvm#1694 · Filter by author aeronmiles opened on Oct 10, 2026

• pack create --from-vm reads every byte of both disks

  smol-machines/smolvm#1689 · Filter by author BABTUNA opened on Oct 10, 2026

• Checkpoint pauses a non-branchable machine for 1.6s scanning untouched RAM

  smol-machines/smolvm#1687 · Filter by author BABTUNA opened on Oct 10, 2026

• Let a mediated-egress decider control DNS, or allow no names at all

  smol-machines/smolvm#1681 · Filter by author AlixANNERAUD opened on Oct 10, 2026

• Let a running machine's published ports be changed without a restart

  smol-machines/smolvm#1680 · Filter by author AlixANNERAUD opened on Oct 10, 2026

• No benchmark for core machine operations

  smol-machines/smolvm#1663 · Filter by author BABTUNA opened on Oct 10, 2026
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• Allow to gate some dependencies when using as a library

  enhancement
  smol-machines/smolvm#1336 · Filter by author almet opened on Sep 19, 2026
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• [Feature Request] Support defining and launching VM containers from a docker-compose.yaml

  enhancement
  smol-machines/smolvm#1307 · Filter by author XhstormR opened on Sep 17, 2026

• Support for persistent storage in microvm on k8

  enhancement
  smol-machines/smolvm#1296 · Filter by author ACodingfreak opened on Sep 16, 2026
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• virtio-net backend causes crun error on vm restart

  bug
  smol-machines/smolvm#1270 · Filter by author Cooksauce opened on Sep 15, 2026
  3

• The VM process stops without a message during a sustained Kubernetes workload

  bug
  smol-machines/smolvm#1207 · Filter by author bguijt opened on Sep 8, 2026
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• Recommended directory layout

  enhancementgood first issuehelp wanted
  smol-machines/smolvm#1069 · Filter by author XhstormR opened on Aug 27, 2026

• disk_trim returns nothing to the host on qcow2 disks, which is the Linux default

  smol-machines/smolvm#992 · Filter by author NickyHeC opened on Aug 18, 2026

• Provide Developer ID–signed and notarized macOS release binaries

  enhancement
  smol-machines/smolvm#960 · Filter by author OrionAi-dev opened on Aug 16, 2026
  

• Docker-in-VM on Apple Silicon: amd64-only images fail with rosetta-wrapper: unexpected initial stop: 32512 (dockerd containers lack the /mnt/rosetta mount)

  smol-machines/smolvm#894 · Filter by author Bnjoroge1 opened on Aug 10, 2026
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• k8s shim never starts on containerd >= 2.3: BootstrapParams mis-parsed on stdin

  smol-machines/smolvm#889 · Filter by author NickyHeC opened on Aug 9, 2026
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• Feature Request: Network deny list

  enhancementhelp wanted
  smol-machines/smolvm#734 · Filter by author dropwhile opened on Jul 23, 2026
  3

  

• Feature request: SSH

  enhancement
  smol-machines/smolvm#732 · Filter by author 0xmarcinz opened on Jul 23, 2026

• Vulkan not working on Ubuntu 24.04

  bug
  smol-machines/smolvm#730 · Filter by author anderspitman opened on Jul 22, 2026
  

• Windows Examples not working

  documentation
  smol-machines/smolvm#572 · Filter by author lonnietc opened on Jul 9, 2026
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• Persistent VMs depend on cache

  enhancement
  smol-machines/smolvm#373 · Filter by author anderspitman opened on Jun 10, 2026
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