Vagrant is the command line utility for managing the lifecycle of virtual machines. Isolate dependencies and their configuration within a single disposable and consistent environment.

Note: Make sure to have ssh and rsync installed — if you use the respective Vagrant functions. This package does not link to any specific implementation of these to allow different clients and to avoid configuration conflicts when running on a `foreign distribution'.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 GTK+ support for open-vm-tools.

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.

This package provides the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor which is a hypervisor.

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

vagrant-spec is a both a specification of how Vagrant and its various components should behave as well as a library of testing helpers that let you write your own unit and acceptance tests for Vagrant.

libosinfo is a GObject based library API for managing information about operating systems, hypervisors and the (virtual) hardware devices they can support. It includes a database containing device metadata and provides APIs to match/identify optimal devices for deploying an operating system on a hypervisor. Via GObject Introspection, the API is available in all common programming languages. Vala bindings are also provided.

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.

Bochs is a highly portable IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. Bochs can be compiled to emulate many different x86 CPUs, from early 386 to the most recent x86-64 Intel and AMD processors. Bochs is capable of running most operating systems inside the emulation including GNU/Linux, DOS or Microsoft Windows.

Using this tool, you can freeze a running application (or part of it) and checkpoint it to a hard drive as a collection of files. You can then use the files to restore and run the application from the point it was frozen at. The distinctive feature of the CRIU project is that it is mainly implemented in user space.

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.

RVVM is a RISC-V CPU and system software implementation written in C. It supports the entire RV64GC ISA, and it passes compliance tests for both RV64 and RV32. OpenSBI, U-Boot, and custom firmwares boot and execute properly. It is capable of running Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku, and other OSes. Furthermore, it emulates a variety of hardware and peripherals.

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.

The XenServer guest utilities enable a Xen-based hypervisor, (Citrix XenServer, XCP-NG, etc.) to work with a Xen-enabled Unix-like guest VMs. This allows the guest to share information about its state back to the host, such IP address, memory usage, etc. and allows the host to inform the guest VM about events that change the virtualized hardware, such as hotplugging.

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

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

This package provides Python bindings to the libvirt virtualization library.

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