Open Source Linux Virtual Machine Software

LXD is a next-generation system container and virtual machine manager. It offers a unified user experience around full Linux systems running inside containers or virtual machines. LXD is image based and provides images for a wide number of Linux distributions. It provides flexibility and scalability for various use cases, with support for different storage backends and network types and the option to install on hardware ranging from an individual laptop or cloud instance to a full server rack. When using LXD, you can manage your instances (containers and VMs) with a simple command line tool, directly through the REST API or by using third-party tools and integrations. LXD implements a single REST API for both local and remote access. The LXD project was founded and is currently led by Canonical Ltd with contributions from a range of other companies and individual contributors.

VMWare backup and replication for ESXi vSphere virtual machines to datastore or differential over IP. No agents, self capable, runs in the hypervisor host, ESXi 5.1, ESXi 5.5 & ESXi <=6.7 compatible, hot backups. Consists in a cron programmable service running in the hypervisor. Hot backups, fully functional, standalone, ideal for dedicated servers. Full version supports quiescing, differential backup, deduplication and much more... Download link: https://33hops.com/xsibackup-vmware-esxi-backup.html Free VMWare backup solution for the ESXi hypervisor. Linux style command line tool. Crontab with configurable disk space autoprovision, set the room you want to reserve for your backups and rotate them. Full backups may be done with vmkfstools or by means of Rsync and its Delta algorithm (read: https://33hops.com/blog_xsibackup-rsync-considerations.html), to a local datastore or over TCP/IP tunneled through SSH, so any transfer over IP is secure.

vmmonitor is a command line tool written in Perl used to monitor/locate VMware images in distributed environment. I am feeling great after using it to locate a VMware image. Try it!