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Top 23 Go Virtualization Projects
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Project mention: What Active Rubyists Are Using in 2026: A Maintainer's Read of the RubyKaigi Survey | dev.to | 2026-07-03
Nix-family (nix / devbox): ~10
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VERSION=$(kubectl get kubevirt.kubevirt.io/kubevirt -n kubevirt -o=jsonpath="{.status.observedKubeVirtVersion}") ARCH=$(uname -s | tr A-Z a-z)-$(uname -m | sed 's/x86_64/amd64/') || windows-amd64.exe echo ${ARCH} curl -L -o virtctl https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/download/${VERSION}/virtctl-${VERSION}-${ARCH} sudo install -m 0755 virtctl /usr/local/bin
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Project mention: Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-19
Red Hat is offering OpenShift virtualization, which is Kubernetes with Kubevirt. So some people might just use Kubernetes with Kubevirt.
There's also Harvester "open source hyperconverged infrastructure" https://harvesterhci.io/
Or some Xen spinoff like https://xcp-ng.org/
Smaller shops are migrating to Proxmox.
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firecracker-containerd
firecracker-containerd enables containerd to manage containers as Firecracker microVMs
Firecracker containerd: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-containerd
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terraform-provider-libvirt
Terraform provider to provision infrastructure with Linux's KVM using libvirt
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crc
CRC is a tool to help you run containers. It manages local VMs to run a OpenShift 4.x cluster, Microshift or Podman optimized for testing and development purposes
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Project mention: Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-09
I tried it and it worked great at first but I had multiple issues with it, the disk space usage was growing significantly, I need to login multiple times for each sandbox, it's closed source and not possible to customize to my need.
One other thing, I want to be able to handle multiple repos in the same sandbox and have a standard workflow around worktrees (one worktree per repo, all the worktree mounted in the VM).
These were some of the reasons that led me to build: Clawk - https://github.com/clawkwork/clawk
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vz
Create virtual machines and run Linux-based operating systems in Go using Apple Virtualization.framework.
Project mention: vz: Create VMs and run Linux-based OSs in Go with Apple Virtualization framework | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-04 -
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orchard
Orchestrator for running Tart Virtual Machines on a cluster of Apple Silicon devices (by openai)
Orchard is also from Cirrus Labs — same family as Tart. The pitch is: instead of you orchestrating individual Mac hosts, Orchard runs as a controller that manages a pool of Mac workers, and you ask it for a VM via an API. It handles scheduling, queuing, and lifecycle.
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Project mention: Show HN: Try Omarchy for Windows – Full Omarchy Desktop on Windows | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-09-20
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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. (by projecteru2)
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Packer has a tart-cli source that builds those images. We bake everything — Xcode, Homebrew, signing tools, languages — into the image at build time.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Go Virtualization discussion
Go Virtualization related posts
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MacOS Workers, or how I built my own Mac cloud
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Jenkins as a Code, or how I stopped clicking around in the UI
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firecracker-containerd
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KubeVirt to run VMs in your K8s cluster
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vz: Create VMs and run Linux-based OSs in Go with Apple Virtualization framework
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Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing
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Developing Inside a Virtual Machine
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A note from our sponsor - AppSignal
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Virtualization projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | devbox | 12,391 |
| 2 | kubevirt | 7,105 |
| 3 | harvester | 5,194 |
| 4 | firecracker-containerd | 2,957 |
| 5 | terraform-provider-libvirt | 1,894 |
| 6 | OPS | 1,520 |
| 7 | crc | 1,389 |
| 8 | macpine | 1,040 |
| 9 | clawk | 1,025 |
| 10 | quickpassthrough | 930 |
| 11 | vz | 915 |
| 12 | pvetui | 734 |
| 13 | Juice-Labs | 655 |
| 14 | vic | 649 |
| 15 | virtink | 611 |
| 16 | orchard | 555 |
| 17 | try-omarchy-windows | 538 |
| 18 | d2vm | 374 |
| 19 | appvm | 274 |
| 20 | Eru | 241 |
| 21 | haaukins | 198 |
| 22 | hyperconverged-cluster-operator | 191 |
| 23 | packer-plugin-tart | 92 |
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