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CLUSTER DESKTOP-VIRTUAL-DOWNLOADS · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2022-03-02

OS installers and VM managers

This cluster comprises desktop applications that install or manage operating systems, either as the host OS or inside virtual machines, with features like snapshots, shared folders, resource limits, and USB redirection. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from — only one dated entry predates the index, and three members have no source date. Traction leaders are Boxes, ubuntu-desktop-bootstrap, and GNOME Boxes, all with zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2015: 1MAR 2022: 1SEP 2025: 1AUG 2026: 3SEP 2026: 1
JAN 2015SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 5 open source · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01HyperVBundle77★23 days—Desktop application for managing virtual machines on Windows, including creation, configuration, and monitoring.
  2. 02GNOME Boxes0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application that downloads, installs, and manages virtual machines, offering snapshots, shared folders, USB redirection, and clipboard sharing between host and guest systems.
  3. 03Boxes0★7 mostalelivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application that downloads operating systems and installs them into virtual machines with resource limits, snapshots, and shared folders.
  4. 04Virtual Machine Manager0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application for managing virtual machines through libvirt, supporting KVM, Xen, and LXC, including device configuration and console access.
  5. 05vmware-horizon-rtav0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceClient application for connecting to VMware Horizon virtual desktops with support for real-time audio and video.
  6. 06ghvmctl0★unknownliveopen sourceCommand-line utility for creating and managing virtual machines to test desktop applications in CI pipelines.
  7. 07clouds0★unknownlivehand-codedDesktop application that automates downloading, installing, and booting a Windows operating system inside a virtual machine.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.