# hyperhq/hyperd

HyperContainer Daemon

Repository: https://github.com/hyperhq/hyperd
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hyperd
Homepage: http://www.hypercontainer.io
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: hypervisor, containers
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-11-29T08:14:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4118, "days_push": 2834, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2010, forks 191 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:05.008668+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: container-runtime, cli
- domain: cloud-computing, infrastructure-as-code
- platform: go, cli
- tags: hypervisor, docker-runtime, qemu, xen, vm-isolation, hypercontainer, virtualization, containers, devops, linux

## Member repositories
- hyperhq/hyperd (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:05.008668+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 2026-08-30T03:01:08.097212+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hyperhq/hyperd (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:05.008668+00:00, sha 0133dd50363f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.