Rootfs_builder Alternatives

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multipass

129 7,317 9.9 C++ rootfs_builder VS multipass

Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances
openvscode-server

125 4,733 0.0 TypeScript rootfs_builder VS openvscode-server

Run upstream VS Code on a remote machine with access through a modern web browser from any device, anywhere.
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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
wsldl

5 1,662 5.3 Go rootfs_builder VS wsldl

Advanced WSL launcher / installer. (Win10 FCU x64/arm64 or later.)

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From WampServer, to Vagrant, to QEMU
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Nov 2022

FWIW it's not too difficult to convert a docker image to a VM rootfs. See rootfs_builder[0] for example.
I'm currently working on a wrapper for QEMU that has docker-like semantics for pull/run/start/stop/exec/etc, but it will pull docker images from docker registries and convert them to qcow2 for you and run them in QEMU. It works on Linux and Windows and should work on MacOS and BSD eventually.
[0]: https://github.com/ForAllSecure/rootfs_builder
Custom WSL Distributions
3 projects | dev.to | 24 Dec 2020

After go has finished installing you're going to want to clone this repository and build the executable, this tool will allow us to extract the root filesystem from the docker image into a directory of our choosing.