ZeroVM

ZeroVM
Original author(s)Camuel Gilyadov, Constantine Peresypkin & Dmitri Bortok
Developer(s)LiteStack which was acquired by Rackspace
Stable release
1.0  / 20 March 2014 (20 March 2014)
Repository
Written inC, assembly
Operating systemLinux
Platformx86-64
TypeApplication virtualization
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitezerovm.org

ZeroVM is an open source light-weight virtualization and sandboxing technology. It virtualizes a single process using the Google Native Client platform. Since only a single process is virtualized (instead of a full operating system), the startup overhead is in the order of 5 ms.