unikernels VS QEMU

Compare unikernels vs QEMU and see what are their differences.

unikernels

Unikernel and immutable infrastructures (by cetic)

QEMU

Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website. (by qemu)
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unikernels QEMU
2 188
536 9,153
2.8% 3.2%
0.0 10.0
about 2 years ago 1 day ago
C++ C
- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

unikernels

Posts with mentions or reviews of unikernels. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-13.

QEMU

Posts with mentions or reviews of QEMU. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing unikernels and QEMU you can also consider the following projects:

UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

TermuxArch - Experience the pleasure of the Linux command prompt in Android, Chromebook, Fire OS and Windows on smartphone, smartTV, tablet and wearable https://termuxarch.github.io/TermuxArch/

Unicorn Engine - Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, PowerPC, RiscV, S390x, TriCore, X86)

Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

xemu - Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)

em-dosbox - An Emscripten port of DOSBox

virt-manager - Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt

Packer - Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.

MicroPython - MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems

oVirt - oVirt website

k8s-lab-terraform-libvirt - A Kubernetes lab environment using terraform and libvirt

TinyVM - TinyVM is a small, fast, lightweight virtual machine written in pure ANSI C.