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macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon to use in CI and other automations

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/

Orchestrate VMs from your terminal

😎 A curated list of languages that compile directly to or have their VMs in WebAssembly

Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell

Windows Service to run VirtualBox VMs automatically

🐻 The multi-zone service mesh for containers, Kubernetes and VMs. Built with Envoy. CNCF Sandbox Project.

IAP Desktop is a Windows application that provides zero-trust Remote Desktop and SSH access to Linux and Windows VMs on Google Cloud.

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

Overlaybd: a block based remote image format for containers/vms/sandboxes. The storage backend of containerd/accelerated-container-image.

GUI for the Windows Subsystem for Linux — and native Linux/macOS VMs on Mac. Install, back up, move and configure distros without CLI flags; AI assistant with tools, MCP server for agents, remote WSL over SSH.

Build and use highly customized and ultra-lightweight unikernel VMs.

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`

Simple & easy private cloud platform featuring VMs, Kubernetes & bare-metal

Toolkit for migrating VMs from VMware, OVA, EC2, HyperV, oVirt and OpenStack to KubeVirt

smolBSD is a tiny BSD UNIX (NetBSD) system creation tool, primarily aimed at building modern, lightweight, fast micro VMs

NixOS VMs on macOS or Linux using Lima

Open-source VMs-as-a-service

Use MCP and OpenAPI to safely control Proxmox VE VMs, LXCs, backups, and snapshots from LLMs and AI agents.

containerd sandbox runtime using vms

Automatic DNS records for containers, VMs & clusters. Seven sources (Traefik, Caddy, nginx-proxy, native labels, Kubernetes, Proxmox VE, Incus) and eleven DNS providers including the self-hosted ones most tools skip: Technitium, Pi-hole, AdGuard. Split-horizon out of the box. external-dns for the homelab.

Decentralized runtime platform for Clips — sandboxed execution via BoxLite micro-VMs

Run multiple agents in parallel sandboxed VMs, with a single command, on your PC or in the cloud

The first AI agent harness native to the browser. A browser extension that runs a full agent loop where you already work: it drives your tabs, spins up sandboxed compute (JS notebooks, WASM Linux VMs, client-side apps), and shares what it builds peer-to-peer. BYOK, no backend, no telemetry.

A native macOS app for managing virtual iPhones - browse, create, and boot iOS research VMs from a single window.