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Life & fun · July 21, 2021

Tiny type-2 Linux hypervisor built using Linux/KVM. In in C

:racehorse: Extremely minimal vmm for linux written in C. Hopefully someday will spin linux-vm for you. - flouthoc/wiser

Tiny type-2 Linux hypervisor built using Linux/KVM. In in C launched on July 21, 2021 with 18 votes, #1,261 of 3,502 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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Tiny is a type-2 Linux hypervisor written in C and built on Linux/KVM technology. It enables users to run virtual machines on Linux systems with a lightweight implementation. The project launched in July 2021 and is available on GitHub. It is designed for developers and system administrators who need virtualization capabilities without the overhead of heavier hypervisor solutions.

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