novm

We have hosted the application novm in order to run this application in our online workstations with Wine or directly.

Quick description about novm:

novm is an experimental, minimalist virtual machine monitor that explores running Linux guests with a streamlined user-space control plane. Its goal is fast, scriptable VM lifecycle management�boot, snapshot, pause, resume�without the heft of a full cloud stack. The design favors small, understandable code paths around KVM and tap networking so developers can reason about isolation and performance trade-offs. It showcases patterns like process-per-VM supervision, concise configuration, and direct mapping of devices needed for common development workloads. As a research vehicle, novm emphasizes hackability over feature completeness, making it useful for instrumentation experiments, educational deep dives, or bespoke CI sandboxes. Even though it�s not positioned as a drop-in for production hypervisors, it demonstrates how far a lean VM manager can go with modern kernel primitives.

Features:

• Lightweight KVM-based VM manager with a small user-space control plane
• Fast boot and simple lifecycle commands for developer workflows
• TUN/TAP networking setup for quick guest connectivity
• Snapshot and pause/resume hooks for iterative testing
• Concise configuration files suitable for scripting and CI
• Hackable codebase aimed at experiments and instrumentation

Programming Language: Go.
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