QEMU VS firecracker

Compare QEMU vs firecracker and see what are their differences.

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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QEMU firecracker
188 73
9,153 23,796
2.9% 1.6%
10.0 9.9
1 day ago 6 days ago
C Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later 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.

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.

firecracker

Posts with mentions or reviews of firecracker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-13.

What are some alternatives?

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

UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

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.

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)

bottlerocket - An operating system designed for hosting containers

gvisor - Application Kernel for Containers

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

libkrun - A dynamic library providing Virtualization-based process isolation capabilities

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.