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lmctfy is Google’s open-source container runtime that exposed Linux cgroups and namespaces through a higher-level API, predating the widespread adoption of modern container tools. It offered a daemon and client for creating, updating, and destroying resource-isolated “containers” with quotas on CPU, memory, and other subsystems. The project focused on operational safety—clean hierarchies, accounting, and predictable behavior under resource pressure—reflecting lessons from running containers...

...The design favors small, understandable code paths around KVM and tap networking so developers can reason about isolation and performance trade-offs. It showcases patterns like process-per-VM supervision, concise configuration, and direct mapping of devices needed for common development workloads. As a research vehicle, novm emphasizes hackability over feature completeness, making it useful for instrumentation experiments, educational deep dives, or bespoke CI sandboxes. Even though it’s not positioned as a drop-in for production hypervisors, it demonstrates how far a lean VM manager can go with modern kernel primitives.