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novavm

Harish Santhanalakshmi Ganesan (harishsg99) Publisher

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Details for novavm

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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