--- title: FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor | daily.dev description: FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight Firecracker hypervisor. It's derived from the lightweight Rust-based crosvm which is part of Google ChromeOS. This has... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/freebsd-comes-to-amazon-s-lightweight-hypervisor-u3t6zeofy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor | daily.dev og:description: FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight Firecracker hypervisor. It's derived from the lightweight Rust-based crosvm which is part of Google ChromeOS. This has... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/freebsd-comes-to-amazon-s-lightweight-hypervisor-u3t6zeofy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/u3T6zEOfy.png og:image:alt: FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight Firecracker hypervisor. It's derived from the lightweight Rust-based crosvm which is part of Google ChromeOS. This has meant making multiple adjustments to the FreeBSD kernel to allow for restricted set of services that Firecrackers offers to its so-called "microVMs" ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#amazon](https://daily.dev/tags/amazon), [#containers](https://daily.dev/tags/containers), [#hardware](https://daily.dev/tags/hardware), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/freebsd-comes-to-amazon-s-lightweight-hypervisor-u3t6zeofy) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/freebsd-comes-to-amazon-s-lightweight-hypervisor-u3t6zeofy","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/freebsd-comes-to-amazon-s-lightweight-hypervisor-u3t6zeofy"},"datePublished":"2022-10-19T10:37:13.797Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T06:48:06.299Z","description":"FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight Firecracker hypervisor. It's derived from the lightweight Rust-based crosvm which is part of Google ChromeOS. This has...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/01c3f123ee362169e77343a9cec28580","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/01c3f123ee362169e77343a9cec28580","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Register","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Register","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/66aa2113fdad463992ffcbf0e8963fda","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/theregister"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/freebsd-comes-to-amazon-s-lightweight-hypervisor-u3t6zeofy","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"amazon,containers,hardware,linux","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Register","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/theregister"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor"}]} ```