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Details for cubic

Package name

  • cubic

License

  • GPL-2.0-only

Last updated

  • 9 April 2026 - latest/stable
  • Today - latest/edge

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Cubic is a lightweight command line manager for virtual machines.

Cubic is a lightweight command line manager for virtual machines with focus on simplicity and security.

It has a daemon-less and rootless design. All Cubic virtual machines run unprivileged in the user context. Cubic is built on top of QEMU, KVM and cloud-init.


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Ubuntu 25.04
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Ubuntu 18.04
KDE Neon 24.04
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