Concepts

These pages describe the model shared by local smolvm workflows, the smolmachines SDK, and smol cloud.

Core concepts

Machines and Lifecycle Ephemeral runs, persistent machines, and lifecycle operations. Isolation, Networking, and Credentials The VM boundary, explicit host access, egress policy, and secret handling. Persistent State, Volumes, and Resources Machine disks, host mounts, CPU, memory, and storage. Packs and .smolmachine Portable disk-based environments and compatible hosts. Smolfile Declarative local machine configuration. Forks and Snapshots Live copy-on-write clones, packs, and the current snapshot boundary. GPU Vulkan graphics and CUDA API remoting. Supported Platforms Supported hosts, guest architecture, Windows, WSL, and current limitations.