# Wenzel/awesome-virtualization

Collection of resources about Virtualization

Repository: https://github.com/Wenzel/awesome-virtualization
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesome-virtualization
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: hypervisor, virtualization, virtual-machine
Last push: 2026-08-21T08:55:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3478, "days_push": 12, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1970, forks 314 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:00.792103+00:00)

## What it is
A curated awesome-list of resources about virtualization, covering hypervisors like KVM, Xen, QEMU, VMware, VirtualBox, and Hyper-V. It includes documentation, books, courses, papers, research projects, hypervisor development material, VM introspection, and hypervisor attack research.

## Use cases
- learn how hypervisors like KVM and Xen work
- find books and courses on virtualization
- research hypervisor development and VMX internals
- study virtual machine introspection techniques
- find papers on attacking hypervisors
- explore malware analysis using virtualization
- track hardware virtualization features like VT-x, EPT, and SEV

## When to choose
- you want a curated starting point for learning virtualization concepts
- you are researching hypervisor internals or security
- you need links to official hypervisor documentation in one place

## When to avoid
- you need runnable virtualization software rather than learning resources
- you need a tutorial with hands-on labs rather than a link collection

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: documentation
- domain: developer-tools, operating-systems, security, tutorials
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: awesome-list, virtualization, hypervisor, kvm, xen, qemu, vmware, virtualbox, hyper-v, vm-introspection, malware-analysis

## Member repositories
- Wenzel/awesome-virtualization (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:00.792103+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:05:07.313842+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Wenzel/awesome-virtualization (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:00.792103+00:00, sha d25bafaaaa72)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.