Decision Workspace
qemu-display vs guestkit vs zvariant
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
44
qemu-display
growingv0.2.1
Helper library to communicate with qemu -display dbus
41
guestkit
experimentalv0.3.2
Pure Rust VM disk toolkit with beautiful output, Windows registry parsing, and VM migration support
71
zvariant
stablev5.10.0
D-Bus & GVariant encoding & decoding
Core Metrics
| qemu-display | guestkit | zvariant | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 44 | 41 | 71 |
| Total Downloads | 4.7K | 59 | 45.0M |
| 30d Downloads | 35 | 20 | 4.5M |
| Dependents | 2 | 1 | 1.1K |
| Releases | 7 | 2 | 64 |
| Last Updated | 240d ago | 56d ago | 33d ago |
| Age | 1y 2m | 2m | 6y 2m |
Health Breakdown
qemu-display
Maintenance
9
Quality
12
Community
7
Popularity
4
Documentation
12
guestkit
Maintenance
11
Quality
11
Community
7
Popularity
2
Documentation
10
zvariant
Maintenance
18
Quality
19
Community
14
Popularity
8
Documentation
12
Technical Details
| qemu-display | guestkit | zvariant | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.2.1 | 0.3.2 | 5.10.0 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✓ Yes |
| License | MIT | LGPL-3.0-or-later | MIT |
| Dependencies | 27 | 48 | 19 |
| Crate Size | 30KB | 1.1MB | 93KB |
| Features | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.6% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2021 | 2024 |
| MSRV | 1.77 | — | 1.87 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •zvariant leads with a health score of 71/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •zvariant is depended on by 1.1K crates — strongest ecosystem trust.
- •qemu-display, guestkit are pre-1.0 — API may change.