vsock vs vorteil

vsock

Package vsock provides access to Linux VM sockets (AF_VSOCK) for communication between a hypervisor and its virtual machines. MIT Licensed. (by mdlayher)

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vorteil

turn your applications and containers into micro virtual machines (by direktiv)

Linux micro-virtual-machines Containers virtual-machine Cloud

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vsock		vorteil
	Project
2	Mentions	4
314	Stars	175
-	Growth	-
3.3	Activity	3.8
8 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	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.

vsock

Posts with mentions or reviews of vsock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-26.

Running an HTTP Server with AWS Nitro Enclaves
2 projects | dev.to | 26 Oct 2022

We can use https://github.com/mdlayher/vsock to get a vsock implementation of net.Listener that we can pass to http.Serve.
GO network programming resources
2 projects | /r/golang | 23 Jan 2022

Here is an example of Implementing a Network Protocol in Go which has been published on Github

vorteil

Posts with mentions or reviews of vorteil. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-03.

Nanos: A kernel designed to run one and only one application
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2021

See also https://github.com/direktiv/vorteil
The above also wrote a Uni kernel but it seems they abandoned that as was too large a problem and just link and package now
Vorteil - An Operating System that turns your applications and containers into micro VMs
1 project | /r/coolgithubprojects | 14 Feb 2021
Vorteil: Turn applications and containers into micro virtual machines
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vsock and vorteil you can also consider the following projects:

go.vm - A simple virtual machine - compiler & interpreter - written in golang

osv - OSv, a new operating system for the cloud.

gopacket - Provides packet processing capabilities for Go

OPS - ops - build and run nanos unikernels

Enclave-Server - A simple HTTP server for use on AWS Nitro Enclaves

nanos - A kernel designed to run one and only one application in a virtualized environment

Gentee script programming language - Gentee - script programming language for automation. It uses VM and compiler written in Go (Golang).

dockerops - Nanovms running in Docker x86 container for M1 Mac ARM64.

Eru - Eru, a simple, stateless, flexible, production-ready orchestrator designed to easily integrate into existing workflows. Can run any virtualization things in long or short time.

NFF-Go - NFF-Go -Network Function Framework for GO (former YANFF)

The uGO Language - Script Language for Go