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0xchasercat/flint

Lightweight tool for managing linux virtual machines observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/0xchasercat/flint · TypeScript · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

60/100

  • Activity 79
  • Release rhythm 56
  • Longevity 25
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 0
  • age_days: 361
  • days_rel: 299
  • days_push: 127
  • n_releases_24m: 20

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1697 stars · 102 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

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