kubevirt vs lxd

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kubevirt		lxd
	Project
50	Mentions	29
5,092	Stars	3,952
3.3%	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	9.9
1 day ago	Latest Commit	10 months ago
Go	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.

kubevirt

Posts with mentions or reviews of kubevirt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-03.

Kubernetes For The Sysadmin - Enter KubeVirt
2 projects | dev.to | 3 Oct 2023

First, download virtctl for ARM: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.1.0-alpha.0
KubeVirt v1.0 has landed! This release demonstrates the accomplishments of the community and user adoption over the years
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 11 Jul 2023

The full list of changes can be found in the Release notes. There are performance and scalability benchmarks published for the v1.0 release.
What is the status of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and oVirt?
1 project | /r/redhat | 11 May 2023
Proxmox, CEPH and kubernetes
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 12 Apr 2023

If you're happy with k8s and longhorn, why add Proxmox as another layer underneath? Consider kubevirt ?
Kubernetes for temporary VM?
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 2 Apr 2023

Have you looked at http://kubevirt.io/ ?
How does your company roll out code?
1 project | /r/devops | 1 Apr 2023

If the answer to "how do you run VMs" is "Kubernetes does it" then its about https://kubevirt.io/
Docker's deleting Open Source images and here's what you need to know
23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2023

We are even using Docker Hub to store and distribute VM images...
https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/containerimag...
Blog: KWOK: Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2023

Docker Desktop runs dockerd in a Linux VM with Apple's hypervisor framework. You can also run containers in a Linux VM with Parallels or VMware Fusion hypervisors. But you can't run VMs inside those VMs as it stands today. This works fine on Intel Macs which means you can't experiment and use KVM - one of the killer features of Linux and things like https://kubevirt.io/
Docker + portainer vs k8. EILI5
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 7 Feb 2023

Proxmox VE can run VMs and LXC containers (see my comment below on LXC). Kubernetes can run OCI containers, but there's also KubeVirt for running VMs.
Live Switching Pods to another Node on Resource Limits
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 6 Feb 2023

Another option would be something like KubeVirt but that is a different use case where you are actually running a VM in a container for hard-to-containerize workloads.

lxd

Posts with mentions or reviews of lxd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-04.

LXD is now under Canonical
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 4 Jul 2023

1 project | /r/hackernews | 4 Jul 2023

3 projects | /r/LXD | 4 Jul 2023

The expected changes are: - https://github.com/lxc/lxd will now become https://github.com/canonical/lxd - https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd will disappear and be replaced with a mention directing users to https://ubuntu.com/lxd - The LXD YouTube channel will be handed over to the Canonical team - The LXD section on the LinuxContainers community forum will slowly be sunset in favor of the Ubuntu Discourse forum run by Canonical - The LXD CI infrastructure will be moved under Canonical’s care - Image building for Linux Containers will no longer be relying on systems provided by Canonical, limiting image building to x86_64 and aarch64.

2 projects | /r/linux | 4 Jul 2023

1 project | /r/hypeurls | 4 Jul 2023

6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jul 2023
LXC images download
1 project | /r/Turris | 4 Jul 2023

Hello community, it seems LXC images for arm7l/armhf are no longer available, not from the official Turris mirror nor from LinuxContainers.org (https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/). Any solution or alternative for people like me heavily relying on the Turris Omnia to run LXC containers? Thanks.
Creating .deb files from the source
1 project | /r/linux | 2 Jul 2023
https://linuxcontainers.org › latest about LXD projects documentation
1 project | /r/LXD | 25 Apr 2023
LXC containers not accessible when Internet is down
1 project | /r/Proxmox | 20 Apr 2023

here you go idiot down voters https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/10470

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kubevirt and lxd you can also consider the following projects:

harvester - Open source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software

kata-containers - Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/

firecracker-containerd - firecracker-containerd enables containerd to manage containers as Firecracker microVMs

firecracker-container

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

podman-desktop-companion - Podman desktop companion

cloud-hypervisor - A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

crossplane - The Cloud Native Control Plane

Nomad - Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.