wiser VS jailhouse

Compare wiser vs jailhouse and see what are their differences.

wiser

:racehorse: Extremely minimal vmm for linux written in C. Hopefully someday will spin linux-vm for you. (by flouthoc)

jailhouse

Linux-based partitioning hypervisor (by siemens)
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wiser jailhouse
8 3
259 1,668
- 0.5%
0.0 0.0
over 2 years ago about 1 year ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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wiser

Posts with mentions or reviews of wiser. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

jailhouse

Posts with mentions or reviews of jailhouse. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-13.
  • Is there a way to run RISCV sim spike on bare metal?
    3 projects | /r/RISCV | 13 Aug 2022
    You could run it inside something like jailhouse hypervisor (https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse) if you want to give it direct dedicated "baremetal" access to hardware. You could do this inside of a buildroot linux image. This would need a customized simulator.
  • Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2021
    Yes indeed, and Siemens even has their own hypervisor: https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse
  • Rust for realtime motion control.
    5 projects | /r/rust | 20 Feb 2021
    Yeah, I think that is what something like https://www.toradex.com/computer-on-modules/apalis-arm-family/nxp-imx-8 is useful for, where it has a separate core. Or even on linux you can use isolcpus to get pseudo-isolation. There are also hardware hypervisors like Jailhouse (https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse) which can completely isolate hardware resources and I suppose might prevent the GPU from causing an issue with realtime task. But this definitely affects ease-of-use and probably requires a reduced feature set in the language (no dynamic allocations) and lots of unsafe code.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wiser and jailhouse you can also consider the following projects:

raspberry-pi-os - Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi

linux-embedded-hal - Implementation of the `embedded-hal` traits for Linux devices

lkrg - Linux Kernel Runtime Guard

embedded-trainings-2020

solo5 - A sandboxed execution environment for unikernels

riscv-isa-sim - Spike, a RISC-V ISA Simulator