This package provides a self-contained library for reading and writing Windows Registry "hive" binary files. Unlike many other tools in this area, it doesn't use the textual .REG format for output, because parsing that is as much trouble as parsing the original binary format. Instead it makes the file available through a C API, or through a separate program to export the hive as XML.

LXCFS is a small FUSE file system written with the intention of making Linux containers feel more like a virtual machine. It started as a side project of LXC but can be used by any run-time.

transient is a wrapper for QEMU allowing the creation of virtual machines with shared folder, ssh, and disk creation support.

The RISC-V Proxy Kernel, pk, is a lightweight application execution environment that can host statically-linked RISC-V ELF binaries. It is designed to support tethered RISC-V implementations with limited I/O capability and thus handles I/O-related system calls by proxying them to a host computer.

This package also contains the Berkeley Boot Loader, bbl, which is a supervisor execution environment for tethered RISC-V systems. It is designed to host the RISC-V Linux port.

Python-vagrant is a Python module that provides a thin wrapper around the vagrant command line executable, allowing programmatic control of Vagrant virtual machines.

Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux. The library aims at providing long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.

This package provides a guest OS definition for Ganeti that uses Guix to build virtual machines.

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (Linux containers). It presents a summary view of running domains, their live performance and resource utilization statistics.

This package provides a Vagrant plugin that helps you reduce the amount of coffee you drink while waiting for boxes to be provisioned by sharing a common package cache among similar VM instances. Kinda like vagrant-apt_cache or this magical snippet but targeting multiple package managers and Linux distros.

This package provides a guest OS definition for Ganeti. It installs Debian or a derivative using debootstrap.

Osinfo-db provides the database files for use with the libosinfo library. It provides information about guest operating systems for use with virtualization provisioning tools

libvirt-glib wraps the libvirt library to provide a high-level object-oriented API better suited for glib-based applications, via three libraries:

1. libvirt-glib - GLib main loop integration & misc helper APIs

2. libvirt-gconfig - GObjects for manipulating libvirt XML documents

3. libvirt-gobject - GObjects for managing libvirt objects

QEMU is a generic machine emulator and virtualizer.

When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine---e.g., your own PC. By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance.

When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performances by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. QEMU supports virtualization when executing under the Xen hypervisor or using the KVM kernel module in Linux. When using KVM, QEMU can virtualize x86, server and embedded PowerPC, and S390 guests.

open-vm-tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of, and seamless user interactions with, guests.

open-vm-tools enables the following features in VMware products:

• The ability to perform virtual machine power operations gracefully.

• Execution of VMware provided or user configured scripts in guests during various power operations.

• The ability to run programs, commands and file system operation in guests to enhance guest automation.

• Authentication for guest operations.

• Periodic collection of network, disk, and memory usage information from the guest.

• Generation of heartbeat from guests to hosts so VMware's HA solution can determine guests' availability.

• Clock synchronization between guests and hosts or client desktops.

• Quiescing guest file systems to allow hosts to capture file-system-consistent guest snapshots.

• Execution of pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts while quiescing guest file systems.

• The ability to customize guest operating systems immediately after powering on virtual machines.

• Enabling shared folders between host and guest file systems on VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion.

• Copying and pasting text, graphics, and files between guests and hosts or client desktops.

This is a Vagrant plugin that adds a Libvirt provider to Vagrant, allowing Vagrant to control and provision machines via the Libvirt toolkit.

The agent gathers some guest information, and writes them to xenstore so tooling in dom0 can read it. The default behavior is to be compatible with the XAPI toolstack as currently used in XCP-ng and Citrix Hypervisor/Xenserver, and thus roughly follow what xe-guest-utilities is doing.

Looking Glass allows the use of a KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) configured for VGA PCI Pass-through without an attached physical monitor, keyboard or mouse. It displays the VM's rendered contents on your main monitor/GPU.

This package provides Python bindings to the libvirt virtualization library.

Libx86emu is a small library to emulate x86 instructions. The focus here is not a complete emulation but to cover enough for typical firmware blobs. You can

1. intercept any memory access or directly map real memory ranges

2. intercept any i/o access, map real i/o ports, or block any real i/o

3. intercept any interrupt

4. add a hook to run after each instruction

5. recognize a special x86 instruction that can trigger logging

6. use integrated logging

This package is an internal helper for vagrant-spec. Don't use it.

This Vagrant plugin enables reloading a Vagrant VM as a provisioning step.

umoci is a tool that allows for high-level modification of an Open Container Initiative (OCI) image layout and its tagged images.

qmpbackup is designed to create and restore full and incremental backups of running QEMU virtual machines via QMP, the QEMU Machine Protocol.

Bubblewrap is aimed at running applications in a sandbox, restricting their access to parts of the operating system or user data such as the home directory. Bubblewrap always creates a new mount namespace, and the user can specify exactly what parts of the file system should be made visible in the sandbox. These directories are mounted with the nodev option by default and can be made read-only.