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Top 23 Shell virtual-machine Projects
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InfluxDB
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Project mention: Docker Management Is Evolving These 8 Tools Made My Life Easier | dev.to | 2025-04-25
2. OrbStack — The Fastest Docker for Mac, Period
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Project mention: Show HN: Lume – OS Lightweight CLI/API for macOS/Linux VMs on Apple Silicon | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-02
- It is more of a container-oriented way of spinning up Linux VMs. We're still debating whether to go in that direction with lume, but the good news is that it would mostly require tweaking the hooks to expose lume’s core to adopt the containerd standard. I’d love to hear your thoughts - would you find it useful to have a Docker-like interface for starting macOS workloads? Similarly to: https://github.com/qemus/qemu-docker
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runcvm
RunCVM (Run Container VM) is an experimental open-source Docker container runtime, for launching standard container workloads - as well as Systemd, Docker, even OpenWrt - in VMs using 'docker run`
Project mention: RunCVM: An open-source Docker runtime for launching container images in VMs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-28 -
createinstalliso
Creates a bootable ISO image from a macOS installer application. This image can then be used to install macOS on a physical or virtual machine.
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pop_OS-win10-KVM-setup
This is a repo that contains directions and the necessary files to create a working pop!_OS -> Windows 10 KVM that has GPU Passthrough, CPU Passthrough with proper pinning, Allocated ram, and PCIe passthrough with QEMU and Virt-Manager.
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BrowserBox
Install and run Firefox on Debian unattended in a virtual machine or on a computer. (by Torxgewinde)
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deploy-VFIO
Effortlessly deploy a hardware-passthrough (VFIO) setup for Virtual Machines (VMs) on a Linux desktop. Includes quality-of-life features that you didn't think you need!
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Lotus123-on-reMarkable
Basic guide about running Lotus 123 on the reMarkable tablet, via BOCHS emulation
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virt-manager-easy-installer
Script that simplifies the installation of the Virt-manager virtualization environment and GNS3
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powerstate-virtmanager
Set the power state of a Virtual Machine (VM). Does what virt-manager doesn't; includes missing features like sleep, hibernate, and wake. Bash TUI and Python GUI application.
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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).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source virtual-machine projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | macOS-Simple-KVM | 13,739 |
| 2 | orbstack | 6,746 |
| 3 | macos-virtualbox-vm | 2,555 |
| 4 | qemu | 760 |
| 5 | KVM-GPU-Passthrough | 323 |
| 6 | runcvm | 230 |
| 7 | createinstalliso | 120 |
| 8 | kvm-qemu-virtualization-guide | 113 |
| 9 | docker | 93 |
| 10 | pop_OS-win10-KVM-setup | 70 |
| 11 | homebridge-vm-image | 45 |
| 12 | vfio | 32 |
| 13 | find | 31 |
| 14 | BrowserBox | 28 |
| 15 | Firecracker-VM-Wizard | 22 |
| 16 | deploy-VFIO | 18 |
| 17 | win10-gpu-passthrough | 15 |
| 18 | vedv | 9 |
| 19 | Lotus123-on-reMarkable | 7 |
| 20 | virt-manager-easy-installer | 6 |
| 21 | Linux-from-Docker | 6 |
| 22 | powerstate-virtmanager | 6 |
| 23 | QVM-Manager | 4 |
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