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Is firecracker supporting unmap/discard/fstrim, ie automatic reduction of the image size on the host when a file is deleted on the guest? If it does how do I enable it?

Priority: Medium
Roadmap: New Request
Status: Parked

# Reason for This PR The MMDS API requires the `X` to be uppercased in header names (e.g. `X-metadata-token`). According to the HTTP1 spec, headers should be ignorant of capitalisation,...

Status: Author

# Describe the bug After some time, some `firecracker` processes on our hosts grow to use as much CPU as possible (100%). Inside the guests, CPU usage is low (2-3%)....

Quality: Bug

# Feature Request This feature allow to resume different VMs while sharing the same snapshot on the host, reducing the amount of snapshots to store. This issue will track the...

Roadmap: Tracked
Feature: Snapshotting

# Feature Tracker This is a feature tracking issue for the work to enable Linux guests across the virtualization industry to safely and efficiently use snapshots [1] by adding a...

Feature: Snapshotting

# Describe the bug Just tripped over this with FreeBSD: I need to set hw.broken_txfifo=1 to make the UART work once we enter userland in a Firecracker VM. This is...

Type: Bug
Priority: Low

# Describe the bug The MP Configuration Table Header (per Intel Multiprocessing Specification) includes fields "BASE TABLE LENGTH" and "ENTRY COUNT". The former specifies the length of the table (header...

Quality: Bug

The virtio network device emulation implementation in Firecracker is currently using an intermediate buffer to build the TX packet from the guest virtqueue descriptors and then calls `write()` on the...

Quality: Improvement
Performance: IO
Priority: Low
Quality: Technical Debt

We should at least decouple the record formatting logic into a different module (e.g. `LogFormatter`). Check if there's anything else that we can do to make the logger more modular.

Contribute: Good First Issue
Codebase: Architecture
Codebase: Refactoring
Feature: Logging

# Describe the bug Whenever we load a reasonably sized memory snapshot (8GB), which has been running several node processes, we notice that some processes get stuck in an uninterruptible...

Quality: Bug