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hyperlight-host

v0.16.0 Growing

A lightweight Virtual Machine Manager that can be hosted in an application to safely run untrusted or code within a VM partition with very low latency and overhead.

Apache-2.0 Edition 2024 MSRV 1.89

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 17d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Team maintained (4 owners)
  • !Heavy dependency tree (73 direct deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
50.7K
Dependents
24
Releases
21
Size
343KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

3.4K downloads in the last 30 days (115/day), up 21% from the previous period.

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Team maintained

This crate is maintained by a team (4 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 1+ years old, hyperlight-host hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Heavy dependency tree

73 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include hyperlight-wasm, hyperlight-js, acton-ai, hyperlight-unikraft. When high-quality crates choose hyperlight-host, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 19/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 14/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 10/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 6/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
90/day avg-20%
01002003004005004/265/146/16/197/77/24

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.12.0
34%
v0.11.0
24%
v0.14.0
17%
v0.9.0
14%
v0.10.0
11%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["kvm", "mshv3", "build-metadata"]

gdbkvm*mshv3*fuzzingcrashdumpmem_profileprint_debugtrace_guesthw-interruptsbuild-metadata*executable_heapfunction_call_metrics

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
73
direct dependencies
Dependents
24
crates depend on hyperlight-host