Decision Workspace
cubic vs hardpass-vm vs v4_cli
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
Cubic is a lightweight command line manager for virtual machines. It has a simple, daemonless and rootless design. All Cubic virtual machines run isolated in the user context. Cubic is built on top of QEMU, KVM and cloud-init. Examples: Create a new VM instance with: $ cubic create example --image ubuntu:noble Open a shell in the VM instance: $ cubic ssh example Alternatively, use `run` to execute the above commands in a single command: $ cubic run example --image ubuntu:noble Show all supported VM images: $ cubic images List previously created VM instances: $ cubic instances Show information about a VM instance: $ cubic show <instance> Execute a command in a VM instance: $ cubic exec <instance> <shell command> For more information, visit: https://cubic-vm.org/ The source code is located at: https://github.com/cubic-vm/cubic
A small, reliable Ubuntu cloud-image VM manager built on QEMU.
CLI tool for V4 VM bytecode deployment
Core Metrics
| cubic | hardpass-vm | v4_cli | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 52 | 50 | 49 |
| Total Downloads | 8.8K | 174 | 98 |
| 30d Downloads | 49 | 175 | 6 |
| Dependents | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Releases | 20 | 4 | 4 |
| Last Updated | 5d ago | today | 142d ago |
| Age | 1y 9m | 1d | 4m |
Health Breakdown
Technical Details
| cubic | hardpass-vm | v4_cli | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.20.0 | 0.3.1 | 0.5.0 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 16 | 15 | 10 |
| Crate Size | 84KB | 61KB | 304KB |
| Features | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 |
| MSRV | — | — | 1.91.0 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •cubic leads with a health score of 52/100, but none of the options score above 80.