Virtualization & containers rankings

Virtualization & containers, ordered by GitHub stars · 8 projects

1utmappUTMA full-featured system emulator and virtual machine host for iOS and macOS, based on QEMU, capable of running Windows, Linux, and more.Swift 35.9k 2026.10.172microsoftWSLWSL is Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux, letting you run unmodified Linux command-line tools, utilities, and applications directly on Windows without a virtual machine or dual boot.C++ 34.0k 2026.10.093quickemu-projectquickemuA wrapper for QEMU that quickly creates and runs optimized Windows, macOS, and Linux virtual machines, automatically handling configuration without exhaustive setup.Shell 16.4k 2026.02.104Lakr233vphone-cliA command-line tool that boots a virtual iPhone on Apple Silicon Macs using Apple's Virtualization.framework, with support for iOS versions and firmware variants.Swift 15.7k 2026.10.185JustsengerExHyperVA graphical Hyper-V management tool that allows ordinary users to easily master advanced features like DDA and GPU-PV, with CPU advanced tuning, batch VM management, and lightweight mode.C# 4.7k 2026.10.166Catenerstiny_containerTiny Container is a lightweight Linux container app for Android devices that lets users run a full Debian 12 XFCE desktop environment on phones or tablets, with Fcitx Pinyin input method and useful packages preinstalled, turning a phone into a computer.Kotlin 4.2k 2026.08.127ExTVPodroidPodroid is a rootless Android app that boots an Alpine Linux VM with its own kernel, so you can run Podman, Docker, and LXC containers plus GUI Linux apps directly on your phone.Kotlin 3.4k 2026.09.218IPF-SinonDSH-FolkDSH-Folk is an Android app that downloads a Linux container runtime and launches DeepSeek Harness inside it, letting you use the Web UI of this Node.js coding agent directly on your phone.Kotlin 41 2026.10.19