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Package name
- novavm
License
- LGPL-2.1
Last updated
- 8 March 2026 - latest/stable
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Lightweight microVM hypervisor with eBPF observability and OPA policy
NovaVM runs OCI container images inside real KVM virtual machines with eBPF observability and OPA policy enforcement.
Features:
- KVM isolation — each sandbox runs in its own VM
- 2s cold boot / 69ms warm boot with L3 snapshots
- OCI images from Docker Hub, GHCR, Quay.io
- 4-level caching (L1 blob, L2 rootfs, L3 snapshot, L4 pool)
- eBPF observability (host + guest kernel probes)
- OPA policy (admission + runtime enforcement)
- REST + gRPC APIs
- Python and TypeScript SDKs (zero dependencies)
Quick start: sudo nova setup sudo nova serve --config /etc/nova/nova.toml nova run nginx:alpine --name web
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