microvm.nix VS virtiofsd

Compare microvm.nix vs virtiofsd and see what are their differences.

microvm.nix

NixOS MicroVMs (by astro)
Nix Nixos microvm microvms flakes flake nix-flake cloud-hypervisor crosvm firecracker Qemu Virtualization kvmtool
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microvm.nix

Posts with mentions or reviews of microvm.nix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-16.

virtiofsd

Posts with mentions or reviews of virtiofsd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-13.
  • Make your QEMU 10 times faster with this one weird trick
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2022
    FWIW, the contemporary alternative to 9p is virtiofs. It is implemented as a separate service that is running aside the hypervisor. Originally out of qemu, it was rewritten in Rust as a freestanding project that can also be used with cloud-hypervisor and crosvm.

    https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd

    On NixOS: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix

What are some alternatives?

When comparing microvm.nix and virtiofsd you can also consider the following projects:

nix-cargo-integration - Library to easily and effortlessly integrate Cargo projects with Nix.

qemu - QEMU commit queue for 9P (aka 9pfs) changes only. Please see http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

nixt - Simple unit-testing for Nix [maintainer=@Lord-Valen]

crosvm - The Chrome OS Virtual Machine Monitor - Mirror of https://chromium.googlesource.com/crosvm/crosvm/

namaka - Snapshot testing for Nix based on haumea [maintainer=@figsoda]

flake-utils - Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]

skyflake - NixOS Hyperconverged Infrastructure on Nomad/NixOS

dev-templates - Dev environments for numerous languages based on Nix flakes [maintainer=@lucperkins]

ruby-nix - Generates reproducible ruby/bundler app environment with Nix

base16.nix - Theme applications with your favourite base16 colorschemes in Nix

haumea - Filesystem-based module system for Nix [maintainer=@figsoda]

microvm.nix vs nix-cargo-integration virtiofsd vs qemu microvm.nix vs nixt virtiofsd vs crosvm microvm.nix vs namaka microvm.nix vs flake-utils microvm.nix vs skyflake microvm.nix vs qemu microvm.nix vs dev-templates microvm.nix vs ruby-nix microvm.nix vs base16.nix microvm.nix vs haumea