Virtual Machine GitHub Repositories (2026) · Open Source Tools

Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.

An embeddable, portable, branchable virtual machine to safely run Agents locally.

Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon, VirtualBuddy is a virtual machine GUI for macOS M1, M2, M3, M4

Lightweight MicroVM engine built on Cloud Hypervisor. Features include OCI and cloud image support, instant snapshot and clone via reflink, Windows 11 guest support, CNI networking with TC redirect, memory balloon, hugepages, and a Docker-like CLI. Designed for AI sandboxing, cloud desktops, and ephemeral dev environments.

Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform

Minimalistic dynamically-typed language for fun, teaching and creative programming.

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/

🍂 Rust LLVM obfuscation framework with instruction-level VMP/code virtualization for Android, C/C++ and Rust. Supports LLVM 11–23.

Test your code in a real FreeBSD virtual machine on GitHub Actions -- QEMU-powered, with SSH and two-way folder sync

Lightweight Sandbox Powered by a Purpose-Built VM and OS

AuraOS, the Franco-English Operating System developed in C# using Cosmos!

Proper sandboxing for agentic coding and web browsing

STARK-based virtual machine

A simple, lightweight, flexible, embeddable, portable and multi-paradigm dynamic programming language for developing applications, tools, and domain-specific languages

Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

Run AI agents on real and isolated machines — own kernel, filesystem, and network — with <100ms boot. Local first, OCI compatible, pure Rust.

A rootless Android app that boots Alpine Linux: run containers (Podman/Docker/LXC) and GUI desktop apps.

RISC Zero is a zero-knowledge verifiable general computing platform based on zk-STARKs and the RISC-V microarchitecture.

Hetu is a lightweight scripting language written in Dart for embedding in Flutter apps.

DevTools and runtime environment for the Elm programming language