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.

This package provides Python bindings to the libvirt virtualization library.

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.

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.

libguestfs is a set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine (VM) disk images. You can use this for viewing and editing files inside guests, scripting changes to VMs, monitoring disk used/free statistics, creating guests, P2V, V2V, performing backups, cloning VMs, building VMs, formatting disks, resizing disks, and much more.

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

The libtpms library provides software emulation of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM 1.2 and TPM 2.0).

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

Incus is a modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager.

It provides a unified experience for running and managing full Linux systems inside containers or virtual machines. Incus supports images for a large number of Linux distributions (official Ubuntu images and images provided by the community) and is built around a very powerful, yet pretty simple, REST API. Incus scales from one instance on a single machine to a cluster in a full data center rack, making it suitable for running workloads both for development and in production.

This package provides the following commands:

• fuidshift - tool to remap a filesystem tree, switching it from one set of UID/GID ranges to another

• generate-config - tool to generate documentation for Incus

• generate-database - entry point for all go:generate directives used in Incus' source code

• incus - command line client for Incus

• incus-agent - Incus virtual machine agent

• incus-benchmark - tool to benchmark various actions on a local Incus daemon

• incusd - the Incus daemon

• incus-migrate - physical to instance migration tool

• incus-simplestreams - tool to manage the files on a static image server using simplestreams index files as the publishing mechanism

• incus-user - Incus user project daemon

• lxc-to-incus - CLI client for container migration

• lxd-to-incus - LXD to Incus migration tool

• mini-oidc

• sysinfo - basic system stats tool

• tls2jwt - TLS to JWT certificate converter, reference/testing tool

Ganeti is a virtual machine management tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies such as Xen or KVM. Ganeti controls:

• Disk creation management;

• Operating system installation for instances (in co-operation with OS-specific install scripts); and

• Startup, shutdown, and failover between physical systems.

Ganeti is designed to facilitate cluster management of virtual servers and to provide fast and simple recovery after physical failures, using commodity hardware.

This package provides a GTK+ support for open-vm-tools.

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'.

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

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

This plugin creates an Ansible inventory file containing the created virtual machines and the respective ssh-parameters.

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

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.

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

This package contains a set of tools to assist administrators and developers in managing the database.

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.

runc is a command line client for running applications packaged according to the Open Container Initiative (OCI) format and is a compliant implementation of the Open Container Initiative specification.

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