wsl-vpnkit VS gvisor

Compare wsl-vpnkit vs gvisor and see what are their differences.

wsl-vpnkit

Provides network connectivity to WSL 2 when blocked by VPN (by sakai135)
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wsl-vpnkit gvisor
18 64
2,065 15,066
- 2.8%
2.5 9.9
5 months ago 4 days ago
Shell Go
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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wsl-vpnkit

Posts with mentions or reviews of wsl-vpnkit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-18.

gvisor

Posts with mentions or reviews of gvisor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-03.
  • Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2024
    Isn't gVisor kind of this as well?

    "gVisor is an application kernel for containers. It limits the host kernel surface accessible to the application while still giving the application access to all the features it expects. Unlike most kernels, gVisor does not assume or require a fixed set of physical resources; instead, it leverages existing host kernel functionality and runs as a normal process. In other words, gVisor implements Linux by way of Linux."

    https://github.com/google/gvisor

  • Google/Gvisor: Application Kernel for Containers
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2024
  • GVisor: OCI Runtime with Application Kernel
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2024
  • How to Escape a Container
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2023
  • Faster Filesystem Access with Directfs
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jul 2023
    This sort of feels like seeing someone riding a bike and saying: why don’t they just get a car? The simple fact is that containers and VMs are quite different. Whether something uses VMX and friends or not is also a red herring, as gVisor also “rolls it own VMM” [1].

    [1] https://github.com/google/gvisor/tree/master/pkg/sentry/plat...

  • OS in Go? Why Not
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 May 2023
    There's two major production-ready Go-based operating system(-ish) projects:

    - Google's gVisor[1] (a re-implementation of a significant subset of the Linux syscall ABI for isolation, also mentioned in the article)

    - USBArmory's Tamago[2] (a single-threaded bare-metal Go runtime for SOCs)

    Both of these are security-focused with a clear trade off: sacrifice some performance for memory safe and excellent readability (and auditability). I feel like that's the sweet spot for low-level Go - projects that need memory safety but would rather trade some performance for simplicity.

    [1]: https://github.com/google/gvisor

    [2]: https://github.com/usbarmory/tamago

  • Tunwg: Expose your Go HTTP servers online with end to end TLS
    2 projects | /r/golang | 2 May 2023
    It uses gVisor to create a TCP/IP stack in userspace, and starts a wireguard interface on it, which the HTTP server from http.Serve listens on. The library will print a URL after startup, where you can access your server. You can create multiple listeners in one binary.
  • How does go playground work?
    3 projects | /r/golang | 30 Apr 2023
    The playground compiles the program with GOOS=linux, GOARCH=amd64 and runs the program with gVisor. Detailed documentation is available at the gVisor site.
  • Searchable Linux Syscall Table for x86 and x86_64
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2023
  • Multi-tenancy in Kubernetes
    13 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2023
    You could use a container sandbox like gVisor, light virtual machines as containers (Kata containers, firecracker + containerd) or full virtual machines (virtlet as a CRI).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wsl-vpnkit and gvisor you can also consider the following projects:

genie - A quick way into a systemd "bottle" for WSL

firecracker - Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.

UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

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

runtime - Kata Containers version 1.x runtime (for version 2.x see https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers).

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/

garden - Automation for Kubernetes development and testing. Spin up production-like environments for development, testing, and CI on demand. Use the same configuration and workflows at every step of the process. Speed up your builds and test runs via shared result caching

sysbox - An open-source, next-generation "runc" that empowers rootless containers to run workloads such as Systemd, Docker, Kubernetes, just like VMs.

PostgresApp - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac

containerd - An open and reliable container runtime

AlmaLinux-WSL2 - Repo to create a WSL2 compatible zip of Alma Linux

KubeArmor - Runtime Security Enforcement System. Workload hardening/sandboxing and implementing least-permissive policies made easy leveraging LSMs (BPF-LSM, AppArmor).