moby/hyperkit
A toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in your application observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
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: n/a
- age_days: 3796
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1224
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3713 stars · 336 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in applications, providing a complete hypervisor based on xhyve/bhyve optimized for lightweight VMs and container deployment. It supports macOS via Hypervisor.framework and is a core component of Docker Desktop for Mac.
Use cases
- run lightweight Linux VMs on macOS
- embed a hypervisor into a desktop application
- run containers locally on a Mac
- build VM-based sandboxing into developer tools
- replace xhyve with a maintained fork
When to choose
- you need a lightweight, embeddable hypervisor on macOS
- you are building tooling like Docker Desktop that needs VMs on Mac
- you want xhyve/bhyve-derived virtualization with Hypervisor.framework
When to avoid
- you need virtualization on Linux or Windows
- you need a full-featured VM manager with a GUI
- you need actively developed features or broad platform support
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
cli developer-tools infrastructure-as-code cli hypervisor virtualization xhyve bhyve macos docker-desktop lightweight-vms containers
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/moby/hyperkit · fetched 2026-08-28 · 028a77ba3a16
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| moby/hyperkit | main | 32 |
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