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Rebased on main now that #1105 merged.

Summary

Devcontainer.json's hostRequirements.storage was ignored by the microsandbox provider. The driver had no --root-disk concept at all, so workspaces installing dependencies (cargo, npm) filled the guest's default-sized OCI root disk with no way to configure it — hostRequirements was only used to validate against the host machine, never to size the VM microsandbox actually provisions.

(The mount that actually holds the workspace, --mount-dir, is an unbounded virtiofs share — it isn't the disk that fills up. It's the OCI root disk, sized by --root-disk, that dependency installs consume.)

Change

  • New MICROSANDBOX_STORAGE provider option (GiB, same convention as MICROSANDBOX_MEMORY/MICROSANDBOX_CPUS) → sandboxSpec.RootDiskGBmsb run --root-disk <N>G.
  • When MICROSANDBOX_STORAGE is unset, falls back to the devcontainer's hostRequirements.storage, so a provider that provisions its own VM can size it to what the devcontainer actually asked for.
  • Same env-wins/hostRequirements-fallback precedence now applies to CPUs and memory (MICROSANDBOX_CPUS/MEMORY still win when configured; hostRequirements.cpus/memory fill the gap otherwise).
  • hostRequirements reaches the driver via RunImageDevContainerParams.ParsedConfig — the same plumbing point checkGPURequirement already uses. RunDevContainer (unused in the real run path, kept only for driver.RunOptionsDriver interface conformance) passes nil.
  • Also wires up sandboxSpec.Ephemeral, previously a dead field: read from MICROSANDBOX_EPHEMERAL config but never passed to the msb CLI at all. It now boots a tmpfs root disk (--root-disk tmpfs:<N>G), so disk state is actually discarded on stop, matching what the option's description always claimed. Sized the same way as the persistent case; since tmpfs needs an explicit size, an 8GiB default (devsy's own choice, not a microsandbox runtime default — documented as such) applies when neither MICROSANDBOX_STORAGE nor hostRequirements.storage is set.

Testing

  • go test ./pkg/driver/microsandbox/... ./pkg/options/... ./pkg/provider/... — all pass; new cases cover hostRequirements-fallback sizing (memory/cpus/storage), configured-default-wins-over-hostRequirements, nil-hostRequirements safety, the --root-disk flag, and ephemeral tmpfs sizing (explicit size and 8GiB default).
  • golangci-lint run on all touched packages — 0 issues.
  • go build ./..., go vet ./..., full non-e2e unit suite — clean.

Addresses #1037.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added configurable Microsandbox root-disk storage sizing.
    • CPU, memory, and storage can now be derived from host requirements when explicit defaults are unavailable.
    • Ephemeral sandboxes use a tmpfs root disk, defaulting to 8 GiB when unspecified.
    • Added the MICROSANDBOX_STORAGE configuration option.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved validation and rounding of host requirement resource values.
  • Documentation

    • Documented storage configuration, fallback behavior, and ephemeral disk sizing.

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Microsandbox now supports configurable root-disk sizing. It resolves storage settings, applies host-requirement fallbacks for CPU, memory, and storage, passes sizing into sandbox specifications, and emits persistent or tmpfs root-disk CLI arguments.

Changes

Microsandbox storage configuration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Storage configuration and resolution
pkg/provider/provider.go, providers/microsandbox/provider.yaml, pkg/options/resolve.go, pkg/options/resolve_test.go, sites/docs-devsy-sh/content/docs/developing-providers/driver.mdx
Adds the Storage provider option, resolves its value, maps it into agent configuration, and documents storage and ephemeral disk behavior.
Host requirement sizing
pkg/driver/microsandbox/client.go, pkg/driver/microsandbox/microsandbox.go, pkg/driver/microsandbox/microsandbox_test.go
Passes HostRequirements into image-based sandbox creation. Derives unset CPU, memory, and root-disk values from validated host requirements. Rounds unit conversions up and clamps oversized values.
Root-disk CLI arguments
pkg/driver/microsandbox/cliclient.go, pkg/driver/microsandbox/cliclient_test.go
Adds --root-disk handling. Ephemeral sandboxes use tmpfs:<size>G and default to 8 GB. Non-ephemeral sandboxes use configured persistent storage.
Driver test updates
pkg/driver/microsandbox/microsandbox_test.go
Updates existing tests for host-requirement arguments and shared workspace and storage constants.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ca947

Oversized host requirement values can wrap to zero, causing microsandboxes to ignore requested memory or storage sizing and potentially start with undersized resources. This bounded correctness issue in the new sizing behavior should be fixed before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ProviderConfig
  participant MicrosandboxAgent
  participant buildSpec
  participant MicrosandboxCLI
  ProviderConfig->>MicrosandboxAgent: resolve storage configuration
  MicrosandboxAgent->>buildSpec: pass configured defaults and HostRequirements
  buildSpec->>MicrosandboxCLI: pass RootDiskGB
  MicrosandboxCLI->>MicrosandboxCLI: emit persistent or tmpfs --root-disk
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In `@pkg/driver/microsandbox/microsandbox.go`:
- Around line 544-577: Update hostRequirementMemoryMiB and
hostRequirementStorageGB to round any nonzero byte value up to the next whole
MiB or GiB before applying clampUint64ToUint32, while preserving zero and
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Devcontainer.json's hostRequirements.storage was ignored by the
microsandbox provider: the driver had no --root-disk concept at all,
so workspaces that installed dependencies (cargo, npm) inside the
guest's default-sized OCI root disk ran out of space with no way to
configure it.

Add a MICROSANDBOX_STORAGE provider option (GiB, same convention as
MICROSANDBOX_MEMORY/CPUS) that maps to msb run's --root-disk flag.
When unset, fall back to the devcontainer's hostRequirements.storage
so a provider that provisions its own VM can size it to what the
devcontainer actually asked for, rather than only using
hostRequirements to validate against the host machine. The same
fallback now applies to CPUs and memory: MICROSANDBOX_CPUS/MEMORY
still win when configured, hostRequirements.cpus/memory fill the gap
otherwise.

hostRequirements reaches the driver via RunImageDevContainerParams.
ParsedConfig, the same plumbing point checkGPURequirement already
uses; RunDevContainer (unused in the real run path but kept for
driver.RunOptionsDriver conformance) passes nil.

Also wires up sandboxSpec.Ephemeral, previously a dead field that was
read from config but never passed to the msb CLI. Ephemeral now boots
a tmpfs root disk (--root-disk tmpfs:<N>G), so the microVM's disk
state is actually discarded on stop as MICROSANDBOX_EPHEMERAL's
description always claimed. Sized the same way as the persistent
case; a tmpfs disk needs an explicit size, so a documented 8GiB
default (devsy's own choice, not a microsandbox runtime default)
applies when neither MICROSANDBOX_STORAGE nor
hostRequirements.storage is set.

Addresses #1037.
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- Around line 551-577: Update config.ParseSizeToBytes to detect multiplication
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Comment on lines +551 to +577
bytes, err := config.ParseSizeToBytes(hostReqs.Memory)
if err != nil {
log.Warnf(
"invalid hostRequirements.memory %q, ignoring for microsandbox sizing: %v",
hostReqs.Memory, err,
)
return 0
}
return ceilBytesToUint32(bytes, 1024*1024)
}

// hostRequirementStorageGB converts devcontainer.json's hostRequirements.storage
// (e.g. "32gb") into GiB for --root-disk, used only as a fallback when no
// MICROSANDBOX_STORAGE default is configured.
func hostRequirementStorageGB(hostReqs *config.HostRequirements) uint32 {
if hostReqs == nil || hostReqs.Storage == "" {
return 0
}
bytes, err := config.ParseSizeToBytes(hostReqs.Storage)
if err != nil {
log.Warnf(
"invalid hostRequirements.storage %q, ignoring for microsandbox sizing: %v",
hostReqs.Storage, err,
)
return 0
}
return ceilBytesToUint32(bytes, 1024*1024*1024)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Prevent overflow before host-requirement conversion.

config.ParseSizeToBytes multiplies the parsed value in uint64 without an overflow check. A valid input such as "16777216tb" wraps to zero bytes. Lines 559 and 577 then return zero, so the sandbox specification ignores the configured memory or storage requirement before clampUint64ToUint32 can saturate it.

Detect overflow in config.ParseSizeToBytes and return a saturated byte value, or preserve enough unit information to clamp before multiplication. Add regression coverage for an oversized host requirement.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
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In `@pkg/driver/microsandbox/microsandbox.go` around lines 551 - 577, Update
config.ParseSizeToBytes to detect multiplication overflow and return a saturated
byte value instead of wrapping, so hostRequirementMemory and
hostRequirementStorageGB can clamp oversized values correctly. Add regression
coverage for oversized memory or storage host requirements, preserving existing
parsing behavior for values within range.

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