Projects

Wine

Wine is an implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. It does not require Microsoft Windows, but can use native Windows DLLs if they are available. It provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86 and x86_64 based Unixes.

Oracle VM VirtualBox

Oracle VM VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. VirtualBox is an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers. VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris hosts in both 32-bit and 64-bit modes. ... [More] It supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Solaris, Windows, Linux, and OpenBSD. [Less]

QEMU

QEMU is a processor and system emulator which achieves a good emulation speed by using dynamic translation

Xen Project (Hypervisor)

The Xen Project is a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project that focusses on the development and support of the Xen open source hypervisor and related components, developed and designed to run with the Linux platform. It includes the Xen Hypervisor, the Xen ARM Hypervisor, XAPI and Mirage OS. This ... [More] page covers the Hypervisor. The Xen Project is open for participation from individuals and companies who have an interest in advancing the state of the Xen ecosystem. The Xen Project follows open source best practices, where code is contributed through an open and transparent process, and evaluated for inclusion based upon technical merit. Committers and Maintainers are elected based upon their standing in the project. [Less]

OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris is an open source project created by Sun Microsystems to build a developer community around the Solaris Operating System technology.

KVM

KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module ... [More] , kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko. KVM also requires a modified QEMU although work is underway to get the required changes upstream. [Less]

Apache CloudStack

claimed by Apache Software Foundation

Apache CloudStack (Incubating) is an open source Cloud Computing platform used to deliver Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). CloudStack enables users to build, manage and deploy compute cloud environments. CloudStack forms the foundation for infrastructure clouds, data center operators can ... [More] quickly and easily build cloud services within their existing infrastructure to offer on-demand, elastic cloud services. CloudStack users can take full advantage of cloud computing to deliver higher efficiency, limitless scale and faster deployment of new services and systems to the end-user. CloudStack will allow user to coordinate virtualized servers, networking and network storage to provide infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) just like hosting providers but on their own hardware. [Less]

libvirt

Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The library aims at providing a long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but since ported to other virtualization technologies, QEmu and KVM.

OpenVZ

OpenVZ is container-based virtualization for Linux. OpenVZ creates multiple secure, isolated containers (otherwise known as VEs or VPSs) on a single physical server enabling better server utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict. Each container performs and executes exactly like a ... [More] stand-alone server; a container can be rebooted independently and have root access, users, IP addresses, memory, processes, files, applications, system libraries and configuration files. [Less]

QEmu x86 virtualization module

qvm86 is a kernel module to provide x86 virtualisation capabilities for the qemu emulator. Virtualisation allows "emulated" code to be run natively on the host cpu, using the CPU protection mechanisms to intercept and emulate priveleged events.