Issues

• machine exec --user drops supplementary groups on a branched machine (1.33.0)

  bug
  smol-machines/smolvm#2075 · Filter by author gjermundgaraba opened on Nov 6, 2026
  1

• Live RAM resize fails: guest virtio-mem driver cannot reserve its device region at boot

  bug
  smol-machines/smolvm#2060 · Filter by author akoenig opened on Nov 4, 2026

• pack prune: no per-pack removal, and it stats every extraction first

  bug
  smol-machines/smolvm#2059 · Filter by author max-causalens opened on Nov 4, 2026

• in smolvm machine update, support changing the entrypoint

  enhancement
  smol-machines/smolvm#2012 · Filter by author benatkin opened on Oct 29, 2026
  1

• Python SDK: creating a machine from a .smolmachine drops the caller's network policy (allow_hosts, network=False), so a pack of a networked VM always boots with open egress

  enhancementhelp wanted
  smol-machines/smolvm#1989 · Filter by author seanw7 opened on Oct 25, 2026

• machine create --from <pack> ignores --secret-env/--secret-file/--secret-keychain

  bug
  smol-machines/smolvm#1986 · Filter by author Aldenysq opened on Oct 25, 2026
  1

• macOS: guest memory reused after free-page reporting is no longer charged to the VM

  enhancement
  smol-machines/smolvm#1944 · Filter by author jvandort opened on Oct 22, 2026
  4

• Shared extraction is keyed by pack checksum, so unchanged layers are re-extracted on every pack version

  enhancementhelp wanted
  smol-machines/smolvm#1868 · Filter by author Bnjoroge1 opened on Oct 19, 2026
  3

• pack push/pull carry only one layer, so a multi-layer pack cannot be deduplicated or resumed per layer

  enhancement
  smol-machines/smolvm#1867 · Filter by author Bnjoroge1 opened on Oct 19, 2026

• Set the dir's owner when adding volume mount

  bughelp wanted
  smol-machines/smolvm#1858 · Filter by author wanyoou opened on Oct 18, 2026
  4

• adb pair succeeds but adb connect fails and adb kill-server hangs when using virtio-net backend

  enhancement
  smol-machines/smolvm#1841 · Filter by author wanyoou opened on Oct 17, 2026

• Create machines from a stopped machine's disks as a copy-on-write base

  enhancement
  smol-machines/smolvm#1816 · Filter by author AlixANNERAUD opened on Oct 15, 2026
  1

• Export a stopped machine's filesystem as an image archive, without its env or secret refs

  enhancement
  smol-machines/smolvm#1815 · Filter by author AlixANNERAUD opened on Oct 15, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

  enhancement
  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

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

• Allow to gate some dependencies when using as a library

  enhancement
  smol-machines/smolvm#1336 · Filter by author almet opened on Sep 19, 2026
  1

• [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
  3

• 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
  4

  

• 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
  1