0xchasercat/flint
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Lightweight tool for managing linux virtual machines observed · 2026-09-06
Health v2 · maintenance only
55/100
- Activity 71
- Release rhythm 48
- Longevity 29
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0
- age_days: 409
- days_rel: 348
- days_push: 175
- n_releases_24m: 20
Adoption not part of the score
1703 stars · 104 forks observed · 2026-09-06
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Flint is a lightweight, self-contained KVM virtual machine management tool shipped as a single <11MB binary with a modern Web UI, CLI, and API. It wraps libvirt/QEMU to let developers and sysadmins create, manage, and snapshot Linux VMs without dealing with XML or heavy tooling.
Use cases
- manage kvm virtual machines from a web ui
- spin up vms with cloud-init without writing libvirt xml
- snapshot and restore linux vms
- run a lightweight hypervisor dashboard in a home lab
- provision vms via an api or cli
- access vm consoles over the browser with webtty
When to choose
- you want simple KVM/libvirt VM management without virt-manager or raw virsh XML
- you run a home lab or small fleet of Linux VMs and want a single lightweight binary
- you need both a web UI and CLI/API for the same VM infrastructure
When to avoid
- you need multi-node or clustered VM orchestration at scale
- you are not on a Linux host with KVM/QEMU and libvirt >= 6.10
- you need advanced features of full platforms like OpenStack or Proxmox
Facets
application · maturity active
deployment configuration-management web-framework cli api-framework self-hosted infrastructure-as-code cloud-computing self-hosted cli kvm libvirt qemu vm-management hypervisor cloud-init snapshots webtty single-binary virtualization devops linux web-server
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/0xchasercat/flint · fetched 2026-09-06 · c8b7a9336979
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| 0xchasercat/flint | main | 55 |
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