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feat(firecracker): add Linux microVM backend to replace smolmachines
Adds a Firecracker-based backend for Linux, providing mature KVM-based
microVM isolation to replace smolmachines/libkrun (issue #342, closes
the dead-end tracked in #332).

Architecture:
- Guest control over SSH (dropbear injected into the rootfs) on a
  point-to-point TAP link. `ssh -t` forwards SIGWINCH natively, so no
  resize bridge is needed.
- Networking: a one-time, root-provisioned pool of user-owned TAP
  devices (no shared bridge → no docker0/virbr0/cni0 collisions) plus a
  dedicated `table inet bot_bottle_fc` nftables table (independent of
  Docker/ufw/firewalld rules). `./cli.py firecracker setup` prints the
  host-appropriate config (NixOS module or sudo script).
- Rootfs: `docker export` → ext4 via `mke2fs -d` (rootless, no mount),
  cached by image digest; per-bottle SSH pubkey + IP passed via the
  kernel cmdline.
- Sidecar: reuses the Docker bundle, published on the slot's host TAP IP.
- Fail-closed isolation: TAP pool verified at preflight; the egress
  boundary is proven empirically post-boot (before the agent runs) by a
  canary probe — the VM must fail to reach the host directly, or launch
  is refused.

Linux hosts with Firecracker + KVM now default to this backend;
macOS stays on macos-container.

Not yet validated end-to-end on live hardware (requires the one-time
network pool). Unit tests + pyright pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01G8p32HJgPoS1hLPWubbftM
2026-07-11 10:32:55 -04:00

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"""Host-side primitives for the Firecracker backend.
Covers the pieces that don't need root at launch time: locating the
firecracker binary / guest kernel / injected dropbear, the fail-closed
preflight (KVM + kernel + isolation table + TAP pool must all be
present before a VM boots), the rootless rootfs pipeline
(`docker export` -> `mke2fs -d`, no mount), and per-bottle SSH key
generation.
The privileged network setup (TAP pool + nft table) is a one-time
operator step — see `netpool.py`, `scripts/firecracker-netpool.sh`,
and `./cli.py firecracker setup`.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import os
import platform
import shutil
import subprocess
from pathlib import Path
from ...log import die, info, warn
from . import netpool
# Guest agent images are Debian-family with USER node; the VM is
# reached over SSH as root (init drops the pubkey into both root's and
# node's authorized_keys) and commands `runuser` down to node.
GUEST_SSH_USER = "root"
# `/dev/kvm` must exist and be openable by the invoking user.
_KVM_DEVICE = "/dev/kvm"
def cache_dir() -> Path:
d = Path(
os.environ.get(
"BOT_BOTTLE_FC_CACHE",
str(Path.home() / ".cache" / "bot-bottle" / "firecracker"),
)
)
d.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
return d
def kernel_path() -> Path:
return Path(os.environ.get("BOT_BOTTLE_FC_KERNEL", str(cache_dir() / "vmlinux")))
def dropbear_path() -> Path:
"""The static dropbear injected into every guest rootfs as its SSH
server. Must be statically linked — the guest has none of the
host's shared libraries."""
return Path(
os.environ.get("BOT_BOTTLE_FC_DROPBEAR", str(cache_dir() / "dropbear"))
)
# --- availability + preflight ---------------------------------------
def is_linux() -> bool:
return platform.system() == "Linux"
def is_available() -> bool:
"""Cheap capability probe used by cross-backend enumeration —
firecracker on PATH, on Linux, with KVM. Does not check the
(operator-provisioned) kernel / pool, so an available-but-unset
host still shows up and gets an actionable error at launch."""
return (
is_linux()
and shutil.which("firecracker") is not None
and os.path.exists(_KVM_DEVICE)
)
def require_firecracker() -> None:
"""Fail-closed preflight. Every check that gates the security
boundary (the isolation table, the TAP pool) errors rather than
booting a VM without it."""
if not is_linux():
die("firecracker backend is only supported on Linux (KVM). "
"On macOS use --backend=macos-container.")
if shutil.which("firecracker") is None:
info("Install: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/releases")
die("firecracker not found on PATH")
_require_kvm()
if not kernel_path().is_file():
die(f"guest kernel not found at {kernel_path()}. Set "
"BOT_BOTTLE_FC_KERNEL or place a vmlinux there.")
if not dropbear_path().is_file():
die(f"static dropbear not found at {dropbear_path()}. Set "
"BOT_BOTTLE_FC_DROPBEAR or cache one there.")
if shutil.which("mke2fs") is None:
die("mke2fs (e2fsprogs) not found — required to build guest rootfs")
_require_network_pool()
def _require_kvm() -> None:
if not os.path.exists(_KVM_DEVICE):
die(f"{_KVM_DEVICE} is missing. Enable KVM (load kvm-intel/kvm-amd; "
"confirm virtualization is on in firmware).")
if not os.access(_KVM_DEVICE, os.R_OK | os.W_OK):
die(f"{_KVM_DEVICE} exists but is not accessible. Add your user to "
"the `kvm` group and re-login.")
def _require_network_pool() -> None:
"""Fail-closed on the parts we can check unprivileged; defer the
rest to the post-boot isolation probe.
The TAP pool is verified here (`ip link show` is unprivileged). The
nft table can only be *confirmed present* here when `nft` is
queryable — which usually needs root — so a missing/absent nft is
not treated as fatal at this stage: the authoritative check is the
empirical isolation probe run after boot, before the agent starts
(see isolation_probe.verify_isolation). What we must never do is
boot without the TAP pool."""
missing = netpool.missing_taps()
if missing:
die(f"network pool incomplete — missing TAP devices: "
f"{', '.join(missing)}.\n ./cli.py firecracker setup")
if shutil.which("nft") is not None and not netpool.nft_table_present():
# nft is queryable and says the table is absent — that's a
# definite, catchable misconfiguration; fail early.
warn(f"isolation table `inet {netpool.NFT_TABLE}` not found via nft. "
"If this is a permissions issue it will be re-checked "
"empirically after boot; otherwise run: "
"./cli.py firecracker setup")
# --- rootfs pipeline (rootless) -------------------------------------
def docker_image_id(ref: str) -> str:
"""The image's content digest, used as the rootfs cache key."""
result = subprocess.run(
["docker", "image", "inspect", "--format", "{{.Id}}", ref],
capture_output=True, text=True, check=False,
)
if result.returncode != 0 or not result.stdout.strip():
die(f"docker image inspect for {ref!r} failed: "
f"{(result.stderr or '').strip() or '<no output>'}")
return result.stdout.strip().replace("sha256:", "")[:16]
def build_base_rootfs_dir(image_ref: str) -> Path:
"""Export the agent image's filesystem and inject the guest init +
static dropbear. Cached by image digest — the per-bottle bits
(authorized_keys, IP) are passed at boot via the kernel cmdline, so
this tree carries nothing bottle-specific and is safely shared.
Returns the prepared directory (read as the `mke2fs -d` source)."""
digest = docker_image_id(image_ref)
base = cache_dir() / "rootfs" / digest
ready = base / ".bb-ready"
if ready.is_file():
return base
if base.exists():
shutil.rmtree(base, ignore_errors=True)
base.mkdir(parents=True)
info(f"exporting {image_ref} rootfs -> {base}")
cid = subprocess.run(
["docker", "create", image_ref, "sleep", "infinity"],
capture_output=True, text=True, check=False,
)
if cid.returncode != 0 or not cid.stdout.strip():
die(f"docker create {image_ref!r} failed: {cid.stderr.strip()}")
container = cid.stdout.strip()
try:
export = subprocess.Popen(
["docker", "export", container], stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
)
untar = subprocess.run(
["tar", "-x", "-C", str(base)], stdin=export.stdout, check=False,
)
export.wait()
if export.returncode != 0 or untar.returncode != 0:
die(f"exporting rootfs for {image_ref!r} failed")
finally:
subprocess.run(
["docker", "rm", "-f", container],
stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL, check=False,
)
_inject_guest_boot(base)
ready.write_text("ok\n")
return base
def _inject_guest_boot(rootfs: Path) -> None:
"""Drop the static dropbear and the PID-1 init into the rootfs."""
shutil.copy2(dropbear_path(), rootfs / "bb-dropbear")
os.chmod(rootfs / "bb-dropbear", 0o755)
init = rootfs / "bb-init"
init.write_text(_GUEST_INIT)
os.chmod(init, 0o755)
def build_rootfs_ext4(base_dir: Path, out_path: Path, *, slack_mib: int = 1024) -> None:
"""Build a fresh, writable ext4 for one bottle from the cached base
dir. Rootless: `mke2fs -d` populates the image from a directory
without mounting. Each call produces an independent disk, so the
shared base dir stays untouched and concurrent bottles don't race."""
used_mib = _dir_size_mib(base_dir)
size_mib = used_mib + slack_mib
out_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
result = subprocess.run(
["mke2fs", "-q", "-t", "ext4", "-d", str(base_dir), "-F",
str(out_path), f"{size_mib}M"],
capture_output=True, text=True, check=False,
)
if result.returncode != 0:
die(f"mke2fs for {out_path} failed: {result.stderr.strip()}")
def _dir_size_mib(path: Path) -> int:
result = subprocess.run(
["du", "-sm", str(path)], capture_output=True, text=True, check=False,
)
try:
return int(result.stdout.split()[0])
except (ValueError, IndexError):
return 2048
# --- per-bottle SSH keys --------------------------------------------
def generate_keypair(dest_dir: Path) -> tuple[Path, str]:
"""Mint a per-bottle ed25519 keypair. Returns (private_key_path,
public_key_line). The public line is injected into the guest via
the boot cmdline; the private key authenticates host->guest SSH."""
dest_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
key = dest_dir / "bottle_id_ed25519"
if key.exists():
key.unlink()
(dest_dir / "bottle_id_ed25519.pub").unlink(missing_ok=True)
subprocess.run(
["ssh-keygen", "-t", "ed25519", "-N", "", "-q", "-f", str(key),
"-C", "bot-bottle-firecracker"],
check=True,
)
pub = (dest_dir / "bottle_id_ed25519.pub").read_text().strip()
return key, pub
def ssh_base_argv(private_key: Path, guest_ip: str) -> list[str]:
"""Common SSH options for host->guest control. The VM is ephemeral
and per-bottle, so host-key TOFU is meaningless — pin no known_hosts
and skip the check rather than accumulate churn."""
return [
"ssh",
"-i", str(private_key),
"-o", "StrictHostKeyChecking=no",
"-o", "UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null",
"-o", "LogLevel=ERROR",
"-o", "ConnectTimeout=5",
f"{GUEST_SSH_USER}@{guest_ip}",
]
# PID-1 init injected into every guest. Kept dependency-light: relies
# only on coreutils + a POSIX shell (present in the Debian-family agent
# images). The kernel `ip=` cmdline configures eth0 before init runs,
# so no iproute2 is needed. The per-bottle SSH pubkey arrives base64 on
# the cmdline; dropbear generates ephemeral host keys with -R.
_GUEST_INIT = r"""#!/bin/sh
# bot-bottle Firecracker guest init (PID 1).
mount -t proc proc /proc 2>/dev/null
mount -t sysfs sys /sys 2>/dev/null
mount -t devtmpfs dev /dev 2>/dev/null
mkdir -p /dev/pts && mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts 2>/dev/null
mount -o remount,rw / 2>/dev/null
# Install the per-bottle SSH pubkey from the kernel cmdline.
KEY=$(sed -n 's/.*bb_pubkey=\([^ ]*\).*/\1/p' /proc/cmdline | base64 -d 2>/dev/null)
if [ -n "$KEY" ]; then
for home in /root /home/node; do
mkdir -p "$home/.ssh"
printf '%s\n' "$KEY" > "$home/.ssh/authorized_keys"
chmod 700 "$home/.ssh"
chmod 600 "$home/.ssh/authorized_keys"
done
chown -R node:node /home/node/.ssh 2>/dev/null || true
fi
mkdir -p /etc/dropbear /run
# -R: generate host keys on demand. -E: log to stderr (guest console).
/bb-dropbear -R -E -p 22 2>/dev/null &
# Reap zombies as PID 1. dropbear is always a child, so `wait` blocks
# rather than busy-looping.
while : ; do wait ; done
"""