hyperhq/hyperd
HyperContainer Daemon observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4118
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2834
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2010 stars · 191 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
HyperContainer daemon (hyperd) with a companion CLI (hyperctl) that runs Docker images on plain hypervisors like QEMU and Xen. It combines hardware-enforced VM isolation with container portability and sub-second boot times.
Use cases
- run docker images inside lightweight VMs
- strong hardware-enforced container isolation
- run untrusted workloads in isolated pods
- reuse existing virtual infrastructure for containers
- hypervisor-agnostic container runtime on linux
When to choose
- you need VM-grade isolation for container workloads on Linux with QEMU or Xen
- you want to run Docker images on hypervisors without a shared kernel
- you need fast-booting VMs with small container-sized images
When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained project - the last release was 2018
- you want modern alternatives like Kata Containers or gVisor
- you need non-Linux host support
Facets
cli-tool · maturity abandoned
container-runtime cli cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code go cli hypervisor docker-runtime qemu xen vm-isolation hypercontainer virtualization containers devops linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/hyperhq/hyperd · fetched 2026-08-28 · 0133dd50363f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| hyperhq/hyperd | main | 10 |
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