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LiteBox

Sandboxing library OS in Rust that shrinks the host interface

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What it is

LiteBox is a library operating system written in Rust that isolates programs by exposing only a narrow interface to the underlying host. It pairs a POSIX-style upper interface with pluggable platform backends, so the same code can run in kernel or user mode. Systems and security engineers use it to run unmodified Linux programs on Windows, sandbox Linux apps on Linux, or run workloads on confidential-computing targets such as SEV-SNP and OP-TEE.

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3,201 GitHub stars.
3,201

Forks
179
Commits
829
Contributors
19
Language
Rust
License
MIT
Last commit
Oct 19, 2026
On GitHub since
December 2024
First release
October 2026
Platforms
Windows, Linux, library
Self-hostable
No
Tags
  • containers
  • agent-sandbox

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Updated Oct 21, 2026
  • Hacker NewsMicrosoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OSFeb 6, 2026 · 390 points · 215 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“3. Microsoft released litebox, a security-first “library OS” that runs in both kernel and user mode. Because apparently just having an OS wasn’t ambitious…”Feb 16, 2026 · 0 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
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