# 0xchasercat/flint

Lightweight tool for managing linux virtual machines

Repository: https://github.com/0xchasercat/flint
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/flint
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: cloud, cloud-init, devops, hypervisor, infra, infrastructure, kvm, libvirt, orchestration, oss, qemu, serial, snapshot, virtual-machine, virtualization, vm, vmm, webtty
Last push: 2026-04-28T08:44:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 60/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 79, release rhythm 56, longevity 25
- inputs: {"age_days": 361, "days_push": 127, "days_rel": 299, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 20}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1697, forks 102 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:24.005965+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: deployment, configuration-management, web-framework, cli, api-framework
- domain: self-hosted, infrastructure-as-code, cloud-computing
- platform: self-hosted, cli
- tags: kvm, libvirt, qemu, vm-management, hypervisor, cloud-init, snapshots, webtty, single-binary, virtualization, devops, linux, web-server

## Member repositories
- 0xchasercat/flint (main) score 60

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:24.005965+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 2026-08-30T03:37:50.476797+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/0xchasercat/flint (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:24.005965+00:00, sha c8b7a9336979)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.