Open Source C Virtual Machine Software for Linux

kvm, or kernel-based virtual machine, is a device driver and userspace component for Linux that utilizes hardware virtualization extensions such as Intel's VT to create virtual machines running on a Linux host.

crosvm (ChromeOS Virtual Machine Monitor) is a secure, lightweight virtual machine monitor built on top of the Linux KVM hypervisor. Developed for ChromeOS, it is designed to isolate and execute Linux and Android guests efficiently while maintaining strong security boundaries. Unlike general-purpose emulators like QEMU, crosvm avoids full hardware emulation and focuses on modern paravirtualized I/O using the virtio standard, reducing complexity and attack surface. Written in Rust, it emphasizes memory safety and modularity, allowing sandboxed device emulation with fine-grained privilege separation. crosvm underpins several ChromeOS subsystems, including Android Runtime for Chrome (ARCVM) and Crostini Linux containers, enabling rich application compatibility within a tightly controlled environment.

TiEmu is an emulator of Texas Instruments hand-helds (TI89/92/92+/V200) for Linux & Windows written with GTK. Full-featured with a graphical debugger.

The open-vm-tools project provides a suite of open source virtualization utilities and drivers to improve the functionality and user experience of virtualization. The project currently runs in guest operating systems under VMware virtualization.

X11-Basic is a dialect of the BASIC programming language with graphics capability that integrates features like shell scripting, cgi-Programming and full graphical visualisation into the easy to learn basic language on modern computers.

The Ring is a practical general-purpose multi-paradigm language. The supported programming paradigms are imperative, procedural, object-oriented, declarative using nested structures, functional, meta programming and natural programming. The language is portable (MS-DOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, WebAssembly, Microcontrollers, etc.) and can be used to create Console, GUI, Web, Games and Mobile applications. The language is designed to be simple, small and flexible. Ring is distributed as a Free-Open Source project under the MIT License.

Brings Erlang, Elixir and other functional languages to really small systems. AtomVM implements from scratch a minimal Erlang VM that supports a subset of ErlangVM features and that is able to run unmodified BEAM binaries on really small systems like MCUs. There is much more information, including a more complete "Getting Started Guide," extensive documentation, examples, and contact information available on the AtomVM project website. AtomVM aims to be easily portable to new platforms with a minimum effort, so additional platforms might be supported in a near future. AtomVM is still in its early stages, but it can run simple applications similar to those available in examples and tests. This basically means that an instruction has not been implemented yet, or that an outdated version has been used. Please, make sure to always run AtomVM using latest version.

BitVisor is a tiny hypervisor initially designed for mediating I/O access from a single guest OS. Its implementation is mature enough to run Windows and Linux, and can be used as a generic platform for various research and development projects.

vmdkutil is a utility to manage VMware sparse virtual disk files (.vmdk), creating, cloning, merging, etc.

Clipper/XBase compatible compiler with initial support other xBase dialects. Multitasking, OOP,SIX/Comix, SQL and ODBC drivers,a C-API for third-party developers, a few wrappers for popular libraries (such as BZIP, GZIP, GD, Crypto, and Fcgi), ....

GXemul is a full-system computer emulator, emulating processors (ARM, MIPS, M88K, PowerPC, and SuperH) and surrounding peripherals, in some cases well enough to let unmodified guest operating systems run as if they were running on real hardware.

The user-mode kernel port is a port of the Linux kernel which runs in a set of processes. The result is a user-mode virtual machine and a kernel which can be debugged and developed using all of the usual process-level tools.

OS9exec - execution environment for OS-9/68k user-mode programs on MacOS9 / MacOSX / Windows and Linux host OS. (OS-9 is an RTOS of Microware/Radisys)

We will create seperate computing environments by Virtualising the native operating system with each environment acting as a dedicated server.Each environment (or VPS) act as different server with different network and files and processes.

The Virtual Motherboard provides a specification of a TCP/IP based system bus, a motherboard simulator implementing this specifaction, and a collection of reusable device simulators. It is the perfect start to build new custom hardware simulators.

Pika is a fast, lightweight, dynamic multi-paradigm programming language. Its list of features includes: First Class Functions, Closures, Lexical Scoping, Optimized Tail Calls, Classes, Cooperative threads, Packages, Properties and Exceptions.

SableVM is a clean-room, highly portable and efficient Java virtual machine. Its goals are to be reasonably small, fast, and compliant with the various specifications (JVM specification, JNI, invocation interface, etc.).

Mac-on-Linux is a Linux/PPC program that virtualizes MacOS or MacOSX in Linux.

N-sim is a framework for studying and developing wireless sensor networks. It emulates the computation of sensor platforms, simulates the wireless communications, and allows plug-in models for source detection simulation. Intended for cluster computing.

Yet another Tetris clone. It features up to 4 simultaneous players, 5 customizable play modes, a piece editor and player profiles (high scores and statistics). Customizable skin, music and background

A general purpose, object-oriented script language that compiles into code for a register based virtual machine. The language is quite similar to object-oriented high-level languages like Java and C#. The library is entirely self-sufficient and ANSI C compliant. It's main purpose is to be embedded in any application to allow automation of that application through scripting. An integrated C++ binding code generator allows you to create bindings for your application's classes in seconds. The integrated HTML documentation generator allows you to create documentation for your native bindings in seconds. The project is released under the zlib/libpng license. It has been in development for over 10 years and offers some powerful features. Extensive information, documentation, articles and code examples can be found at the developer blog.

Plex86 is an OSS virtual machine project for x86. It can be used on its own to run Linux VMs using lightweight VM technology, or in conjunction with the bochs emulator as an accelerator to run non VM-friendly OSes.

OpenGL apps running inside a VM use VMGL to obtain graphics hardware acceleration. VMGL supports VMware, Xen PV and HVM, qemu, and KVM VMs; X11-based OS such as Linux, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris; and ATI, Nvidia and Intel GPUs.

Jainja is a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) written in Java. The VM is developed by using the smallest possible subset of Java in order to run on top of multiple environments : Java SE, JavaME, Android, Javascript, and even natively.

A small C utility to convert a raw dd image into a flat monolithic VMDK file. The code is loosely based on Liveview's java implementation of PartitionEntry.java and MasterBootRecord.java. Will be adding split file (.dd) conversion in the near future