LXD is a unified platform for managing both system containers and virtual machines through a single REST API and command-line interface. It provides a programmatic HTTP interface for controlling the full lifecycle of instances, enabling automation and integration with external tools. The system runs unprivileged containers with per-instance UID/GID mappings, seccomp filters, and AppArmor profiles for kernel-level isolation, while supporting multiple storage backends including directory, Btrfs, LVM, ZFS, Ceph, LINSTOR, and TrueNAS through a unified driver interface. The platform distinguishes
microvm.nix is a declarative virtual machine manager and orchestrator for defining, building, and managing isolated guest environments using Nix. It functions as a virtual machine image builder that transforms system specifications into bootable disk images and runner scripts. The project provides a hypervisor abstraction layer, enabling the deployment of guest images across multiple virtualization backends through a unified configuration. It includes specialized tools for PCI hardware passthrough, granting virtual machines direct access to physical host USB and PCI devices. The framework co
virt-manager is a graphical management interface for configuring hypervisors, virtual machine instances, and containers via the libvirt API. It provides a desktop environment for managing KVM-based virtualization on Linux hosts, acting as a centralized controller for both local and remote hypervisors. The project distinguishes itself through integrated management of the surrounding virtualization infrastructure. It includes dedicated interfaces for virtual network administration to connect guests to physical hardware and virtual storage management for organizing disk volumes into logical pool
Open vSwitch is a software-defined network switch and high-performance data plane engine. It functions as a virtual layer 2 switch and network orchestrator, implementing the OpenFlow protocol to decouple the control plane from the data plane for programmable network forwarding. The project distinguishes itself through a userspace-kernel datapath split and the use of poll-mode drivers for kernel-bypass acceleration. It provides a network tunneling gateway to extend virtual networks across physical hosts and utilizes a transactional, schema-based configuration database with state replication fo
ExHyperV ist eine Suite administrativer Tools für die Verwaltung fortgeschrittener Hyper-V-Konfigurationen, mit speziellem Fokus auf GPU-Partitionierung, Device-Passthrough und virtuelle Netzwerk-Switches. Es bietet eine grafische Oberfläche zur Konfiguration von VM-Ressourcen und zur Optimierung von Hypervisor-Einstellungen.
Die Hauptfunktionen von justsenger/exhyperv sind: GPU Resource Virtualization, Windows GPU Partitioning, Hyper-V Management Interfaces, Virtual Storage Managers, Virtual Machine Managers, Virtual Layer 2 Switches, USB and PCI Passthroughs, Hardware Passthrough Utilities.
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